Sudhakar Poojari confirmed he received transfer orders from the state police headquarter and a relieving order from the ACB office.
MUMBAI: Despite a Supreme Court directive of February 2003 not to transfer Assistant Commissioner of Police and investigating officer Sudhakar Poojari in the multi-crore 1999 Maharashtra Public Service Commission scam till the investigation was complete, he was shunted out of Anti-Corruption Bureau office here on Saturday.
The investigation in the MPSC scam case is yet to be completed.
Additional sessions judge P N Deshmukh has also given an extension for investigation in the case.
Poojari confirmed he had received transfer orders from the state police headquarter as well as a relieving order from ACB office on Saturday.
He declined to comment on his transfer and said, ''Mujhe toh kahinbhi kaam karna hai.''
In February 2003, while hearing the bail application of Dr SD Karnik, Supreme Court division bench Justice M B Shah and Justice Arun Kumar had directed the state government not to transfer Poojari till the investigation was complete.
The order was communicated to the government by the solicitor general.
Home Department officials said it was part of a routine transfer as he had completed his three-year tenure in the ACB office.
Poojari was transferred to the Solapur police training institute in 2003, on which a public interest litigation was filed in the Bombay High Court. The high court directed that Poojari be reinstated.
Police sources said that after the Lohar brothers' dismissal from service following disqualification of their exam by MPSC, top bosses feared if the Lohar brother's case was given to Poojari for investigation, there was possibility the role of the senior Indian Police Service officer would be exposed.
In the MPSC scam 29 people were arrested, including former MPSC chairman Dr SD Karnik, PD Wani, MPSC examination controller Sudhakar Sarode, member Sayali Joshi, Deputy superintendent of police Baban Kadan, Hinduja College principal RD Shivare and others.
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