Chandigarh, May 8: A day before the expiry of the deadline, the special investigation team (SIT) headed by DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyay today submitted its final report in the drugs case in a sealed cover to the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The report came about a month after the DGP claimed probe against an SSP in a drug case was leading him to top cops Suresh Arora and Dinkar Gupta. The report will now come up for consideration on May 23. Already, the Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Shekher Dhawan has made it clear that it would go through the report and may even share it with amicus curiae or friend of the court Anupam Gupta, if required.
The High Court, during the previous date of hearing, had made it clear that the SIT would submit/handover the final report “of the task given to it” by May 9. The Advocate-General had, meanwhile, added the probe would as such have to be restricted to the specific area of investigation rather than a roving inquiry presumably under the banner of the court.
Chattopadhyay, along with two other senior officers, was directed by the court to look into complicity between dismissed inspector Inderjit Singh and Moga SSP Raj Jit Singh “to break the nexus between the law enforcement agency and drug traffickers”.
Chattopadhyay subsequently claimed the role of Punjab DGP Suresh Arora and DGP (Intelligence) Dinkar Gupta “has come to light” during the investigation carried out by him under the court directions.
“Several significant facts and pointers, including reportedly the benami house of a DGP, are being investigated to confirm their involvement in the case with inspector Inderjit Singh and Moga SSP Raj Jit Singh,” Chattopadhyay had asserted.
He had moved the court claiming implication in a case registered on January 3 at Airport police station in Amritsar after Inderpreet Singh Chadha committed suicide. Chattopadhyay claimed it was “at behest of senior police officers whose role was under investigation for being closely associated with Raj Jit Singh and Inderjit Singh”.
