A Pune-based travel agent, a suspect in a fake visa case, has filed a complaint with Anti-Corruption Bureau against Pune police commissioner
The victim, earlier held in a visa case, tells ACB that he was forced to buy tickets for commissioner
A Pune-based travel agent, a suspect in a fake visa case, has filed a complaint with the State Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Mumbai, making serious allegations against Pune police commissioner and former chief of State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Jayant Umaranikar.
In his complaint on June 21, the travel agent, Sanjay Randive, alleged that in April 2006, when he was in police custody in connection with the visa case, the then investigating officer Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) Vithal Shinde had forced him to buy flight tickets for Umaranikar and his family members.
The plane tickets – from Pune to Delhi – cost the agent Rs. 53,176 and were in the name of Jayant Umaranikar, his wife and daughter. The agent, who runs a travel agency Global Link Travel in Pune, has also given details of the air-tickets to the ACB along with the complaint.
The complaint alleges that bookings were made on April 5, 2006 by Global Link Travel Agency. Incidentally, Randive was arrested on April 3 by the CID in connection with a two-year-old case.
Randive alleged that while in custody, Shinde called him to his office and asked him to make arrangement for three tickets from Pune to Delhi. Out of which one was to be a return business class ticket.
Under pressure, Randive called his wife and told her to make arrangements. His wife got the tickets done through Akbar Travels and handed over to Shinde.
According to details given by Randive to ACB, the tickets were of Air Sahara. The first ticket was business class return ticket in the name of Umaranikar (ticket no. 92 5001002168). The other two were economy class one way ticket in the name of Mrs A.J.Umaranikar (ticket no. 92 5001002169) and Miss A. Umaranikar (ticket no. 92 5001002170). The three tickets were purchased at a cost of Rs. 53,176.
Randive said that immediately after the tickets were handed over, he was treated very well by the police and not interrogated further. He was released on bail in a couple of days. However, his misery did not end there. As per the court’s order, he was regularly attending the state CID office.
After a few days, Shinde threatened to arrest him in another case if he did not give him a bottle of ‘Signature’ and ‘Bagpiper’ whisky every week. Randive was doing this for almost one year till April 2007.
In his complaint, Randive said somewhere in December 2006, Shinde asked him to arrange for a one-way air ticket to Boston, the US, for his son. Randive complied with this request and gave Shinde an air ticket worth Rs 29,910.
Randive, who fears that there is a threat to his life in Pune and that he will not get justice in Pune because all officers on whom allegations have been made are posted in Pune, has requested the ACB to investigate the case outside Pune.
ACB sources said that the complaint was received and has been forwarded to the Nasik branch of the ACB for investigation. Senior ACB officials were not available for comment despite repeated efforts.
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