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Cops-liquor smugglers nexus: Court to monitor
probe
Wednesday February 01, 2012 10:34:54 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Criticising Delhi Police for shielding their erring officials, the
Delhi High Court Wednesday decided to monitor a probe against 33
policemen identified for allegedly taking bribe and allowing
liquor smugglers to do business.
According to a report submitted by police today, 33 policemen out
of 54 individuals involved in the case had been identified so far.
The report said that no action had been taken so far against the
identified policemen.
The division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice
R.S. Endlaw said: "There is total lack of action on the part of
Delhi Police and the courts are forced to monitor such type of
cases."
"They are going to shield their own people as the allegation was
against their own officials. There seems to be no serious effort
to complete the probe," the court said, seeking the original
police file pertaining to the investigation.
Petitioner Chetan Sharma sought the court's intervention to
monitor the investigations and alleged that the police
commissioner, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and the home
ministry were not showing interest in the case even after the
court's order.
Sharma said that in July 2010 the court had viewed some CDs that
he had presented after filming policemen and officials of the
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) taking bribe from liquor
smugglers in various parts of the city and had directed the CVC
and police to take action against the erring officials.
Advocate Manish Khanna appearing for petitioner Sharma told the
court that police have failed to register a case against the
officials in compliance with the court's earlier order.
Sharma had named 54 policemen, including 10 traffic policemen and
seven MCD officials for their alleged involvement in taking bribes
and allowing the liquor smugglers to carry on their business in
the city.
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