Chandigarh, April 13: Even as Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh issued a clear and stern warning to police top brass to maintain discipline or face the sack, a resolution of the issue out of court is unlikely. The focus now shifts to the Punjab and Haryana high court on April 23, when it will hear the stand of the government on the issue of DGP (human resource development) S Chattopadhyaya’s allegations against two officers, including the state DGP. The advocate general has to file a reply.
Last week, the turf-war among the top brass of the police had come out in the open, with Chattopadhyaya alleging, in an application before the Punjab and Haryana high court, that DGP Suresh Arora and DGP (intelligence) Dinkar Gupta had been trying to drag him into the suicide case of Inderpreet Chadha, son of a former president of a century-old charitable-cum-educational body Chief Khalsa Dewan.
Chattopadhyaya, who is leading a SIT that the high court has formed to ascertain the role of Moga SSP Raj Jit Singh Hundal in drug case related to dismissed Punjab Police inspector Inderjit Singh, had also accused the two DGP-rank officers of “being involved in”, and “targeting” him in order to “disable” him from conducting an inquiry into the case.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com
