Inspector General of Police (Tirhut zone) Sunit Kumar has ordered the arrest of DIG (Railway) Ajay Verma in a case of property dispute between a couple in Bihar's Vaishali district, official sources said on Thursday.
MUZAFFARPUR: Inspector General of Police (Tirhut zone) Sunit Kumar has ordered the arrest of DIG (Railway) Ajay Verma in a case of property dispute between a couple in Bihar's Vaishali district, official sources said on Thursday.
Verma is alleged to have threatened to eliminate one Rajendra Rai, a teacher, at the behest of Rai's estranged wife Saroj Kumari.
Saroj is involved in a dispute with her husband over ownership of a house in Baag Dulhin locality of Hajipur, headquarters of Vaishali district.
State's Director General of Police Ashish Ranjan Sinha said the IG had indeed ordered the arrest of Verma and also sent a report to the police headquarters in this regard which was being examined.
“We are processing the report and examining whether sufficient evidence exist against Verma for his arrest," the DGP said in Patna.
Official sources said relations between Rajendra Rai and Saroj, also a teacher, were strained for a long time and the couple had filed criminal cases against each other.
While Rai had filed a case against Saroj and her sons for trying to kill him by throwing him off the roof of his Baag Dulhin house and also forcing him to sign a cheque of Rs six
lakh on May 25, 2006, his wife too had registered a disproportionate assets case against him with the special vigilance court at Muzaffarpur.
According to a case filed by Rai on January 23 this year, Verma had pulled out a gun at the complainant when Rai objected to taking away some documents by the DIG from the house of the estranged couple.
DIG Verma, who was accompanied by a Patna High Court lawyer Ravindra Giriyage and a daughter of the estranged couple Smarika, had allegedly threatened to kill Rajendra Rai.
The IG, who was asked to supervise the case by the DGP on February 4, 2006, in his report said that in his deposition before him, DIG Ajay Verma claimed he had gone to the Baag Dulhin house of the couple on receipt of information that Rai and his men had broken into the locked portion of the house in order to steal some important papers relating to the vigilance case his wife had filed against him.
Verma said in his deposition that he had also forwarded this information to the then Superintendent of Police of Vaishali district Preeta Verma.
On reaching the house, the DIG claimed, Rajendra Rai misbehaved with him and accused him of having illicit relations with his other daughter Sarika. He also said that true to his suspicion he found some important documents relating to the case were missing.
On his relations with Sarika, the DIG told the IG that he knew Sarika as she was a former student of his wife. Verma said under Section 149 of CRPC a police officer could take steps to prevent a cognizable offence from taking place and with this intention he had gone all the way to Hajipur from the state capital.
In his supervision report, the IG, according to official sources, has said that Verma had involved himself in the dispute for "personal gain".
Meanwhile, when contacted Verma rubbished the IG's supervision report and said he would take appropriate action in the matter.
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