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ACP faces another vigilance probe

Staff Reporter

Police officer's alleged involvement in another land deal

NEW DELHI: The vigilance inquiry into the alleged conversation of the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Rajbir Singh, with a drug mafia purportedly in connection with a land deal was ordered at a time when the report of a previous inquiry against the same officer had just been submitted to the authorities concerned.

According to police sources, the Vigilance Department had submitted the report on the Mansarovar Garden firing incident of July 30 only a couple of days ago. The ACP in question was alleged to have opened fire in air and threatened a family. The family was involved in a dispute with another party over a vacant plot of land which both of them jointly owned.

But, even as the police remained tightlipped about the outcome of the inquiry into the Mansarovar Garden incident, reports of alleged conversations of the ACP with a drug dealer appeared in a couple of newspapers on Friday morning. By evening, the Delhi Police Commissioner, K. K. Paul, had asked the Joint Commissioner of Police (Vigilance) to conduct yet another inquiry against the officer.

Land in Haryana

As per the latest allegations, the ACP -- who was awarded a gallantry medal for the fifth time in his career recently and had been posted at the Special Cell of the Delhi police for past many years -- was talking to one Yudhisthir alias Babuji, who is said to be a drug dealer. The intercept, taped by the Narcotics Cell of the Delhi police reportedly in the month of April, has both the accused purportedly discussing ways to bring down the price of a plot of land in Haryana worth several crores and the ACP is supposed to be pressurising the buyer into doing so.

Sources added that Yudhishthir was earlier into drug deals and was even arrested once more than a decade ago. However, later his direct involvement in the drug trade did not come to the fore as he became involved in betting and shady property deals. The name of a politician based in Uttar Pradesh and known for his muscle power has also figured in the alleged conversation.

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