The probe into the alleged drug racket of IPS officer Saji Mohan has broadened with more names including that of a media person coming under the scanner.
The probe into the alleged drug racket of IPS officer Saji Mohan, arrested by the Mumbai ATS with 12 kg of heroin, has broadened with more names including that of a media person coming under the scanner.
The role of a media person closely associated with Mohan, besides possible involvement of more than one local Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) official and other private persons, was being looked into, official sources said.
The NCB had even taken two of its men, posted in the Chandigarh zone, for questioning to Mumbai, from where Mohan, the former Zonal Director of NCB (Chandigarh Zone which includes Punjab and Himachal Pradesh), was arrested on January 24.
Sources said involvement of more NCB officials was also being looked into as "a person alone cannot pull off such a racket".
Moreover, investigators are now probing at the possible "swapping" of certain narcotics with material of equal weight by Mohan, a 1995 batch IPS officer from Jammu and Kashmir cadre, to cover his act of siphoning of heroin.
It is learnt that the NCB would shortly approach a court to seek permission to break open sealed packets of narcotics seized to check if they have been swapped with any other material.
Besides the ATS, the NCB has also set up two teams, one to probe the allegations against Mohan and the other to coordinate with the ATS.
The NCB on January 30 had also filed a case with the Chandigarh police against Mohan, after an internal probe found Mohan had bungled accounts to the tune of over Rs 13 lakh with regard to a particular case cracked by the agency during his
tenure.
The arrest of Mohan, a President's Medal award-winning officer, and currently posted with the Enforcement Directorate in Cochin has sent shock waves across the police establishment after the ATS alleged he had siphoned off heroin during his tenure in the narcotics agency (2006-08) and supplied it drug dealers.
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