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By Our Special Correspondent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, DEC. 29. A Division Bench of the Lok Ayukta has asked the Director General of Police to conduct an impartial inquiry into a complaint that senior police officials, including an IGP, connived with their subordinates to register a false criminal case against a person. The following officials were named as respondents in the complaint: V. R. Rajeevan, former IGP, South Zone; S. Gopinath, former SP, Kottayam; V. Ajayakumar, former SI, Ettumanoor; N. K. Vijayan, former HC, Ettumanoor; M. N. Jayaprakash, former Dy. SP, Kottayam; S. Abdul Rasheed, former Dy. SP, CBCID; P. J. Jose, former Dy. SP, Law and Order, Kottayam; Abraham Mathew, former Dy. SP, Narcotic Cell, Kottayam; and T.U. Joseph, former Dy. SP, Crime Detachment, Kottayam. The complainant, Thankachan Zacharias, a chartered accountant, had filed a case in the Changanassery magistrate's court against some landowners who obstructed a waterway by constructing a dyke across it. In retaliation, the landowners allegedly got a false case filed in the Ettumanoor magistrate court against Zacharias.
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Zacharias brought this to the notice of the higher officials, but without avail. Even the directions of the Assembly Petitions Committee were flouted by the police officials, he said in his complaint. The Lok Ayukta, K. Sreedharan, and the Upa Lok Ayukta, K. A. Mohammed Shafi, said in their interim order that the higher officials had acted on the basis of the reports of their subordinates who were "dancing to the tunes of money power". The order also strongly criticised the failure of the officials to uphold the rule of law.
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