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Ali pulled up officer for freezing agency account: CBI

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JULY 21. A.P. Mohamed Ali, Tamil Nadu Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG), Crime Branch Criminal Investigation Department (CB CID), arrested in a fake stamp paper case, pulled up an investigating officer for freezing an account of an agency which was involved in the scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said here today.

In its counter, filed in the court of the additional chief metropolitan magistrate, D. Arulraj, to the fresh bail application filed by Mr. Ali, the CBI said bail petitions filed repeatedly without any substantial change in circumstances should be dismissed.

The magistrate posted the matter to July 23.

In his application, filed on his behalf by counsel M. Venkataraman, Mr. Ali said barring the first information report, the prosecution did not file any material in the court. He described as "fallacious" the charge that he did not take steps to arrest Nizamuddin, one of the accused in the scam, following a letter from the `Q' Branch CID on circulation of fake stamp papers.

The CBI said the investigating officer of the case, earlier registered by the State Crime Branch CID in 2002, froze the account of Shara Enterprises (one of the agencies which, the CBI said, was used for circulating fake stamp papers in Tamil Nadu), with Global Trust Bank, Kilpauk branch here on March 19, 2002. Investigations revealed that the DIG pulled up the officer for having frozen the account. "This fact points to the ulterior motive of the petitioner." Mr. Ali was directly supervising the case and was giving instructions to his subordinates. The steps said to have been at the initiative of the CB CID came after a huge loss was caused to the exchequer, the CBI said.

Seizure of fake stamps with a face value of Rs.170 crores was made by the STAMPIT, Karnataka in its case and the CB CID could not stake claim for this seizure. This showed that no effective action was taken by the State CB CID after the case was registered in January 2002. The name of Mr. Ali figured in a tape-recorded conversation as "one of the recipients of huge money as illegal gratification from Telgi's crime syndicate".

The CBI said the Manager, Life Insurance Corporation, Villivakkam here, had produced stamp papers with a face value of Rs.1.70 lakhs to the CB CID investigating officer. It was not correct to say they were seized by the police special unit, the counter said.

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