Maharashtra cop who conducted ’sting operation’ on Hasan Ali suspended
March 22nd, 2011 - 9:32 pm ICT by ANIMumbai, Mar 22 (ANI): Maharashtra Government today announced the suspension of senior IPS officer Ashok Deshbhratar, who secretly carried out a sting operation, while interrogating Pune based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, who is alleged to have stashed away over eight billion dollars in Swiss banks.
State Home Minister R R Patil told the state Assembly that Ashok Deshbrathar, DCP (Government Railway Police), has been placed under suspension and a departmental inquiry has been ordered against him.
Patil said action had been taken after a CID inquiry into the CD episode recommended that the officer be sacked from the force under article 311 of the Constitution and a criminal case be filed against him under section 500 (defamation) and 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace) IPC and section 3 of Incitement to Disaffection Act, 1922.
In the CD, he said, Khan was shown boasting of his links with top Congress and NCP leaders and how the decision to appoint Hassan Gafoor as the Mumbai police commissioner was taken at a meeting in a suburban five star hotel.
“It has been proved in the (CID) investigation that the police officer had doctored the CD with an intention to malign the government. He did not pass on the information about his secret interrogation to his superiors which proves his ulterior motive,” Patil added.
While interrogating Khan in a fake passport case when he was arrested in 2008 in Mumbai, Deshbhratar had allegedly made a CD of the investigations. (ANI)
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