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H.P. Chief Minister patronised suspended ADGP: BJP

Staff Correspondent

SHIMLA: The State Bharatiya Janata Party has claimed that there is conclusive evidence against Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on the issue of his undue patronage and constant support to the suspended ADGP B. S. Thind.

"It is no one else but the Chief Minister who was repeatedly called and addressed as "godfather" by the controversial police officer B.S. Thind", said the BJP spokesman Randhir Sharma in a press conference here on Thursday.

"No one less than the stature of Mr. Virbhadra Singh in the State Congress could ring up the Union Home Minister and plead to release him out from the CBI custody", he added while giving a detailed account of the letter written by Thind to his son for approaching the "godfather" for his immediate release.

Reacting to the Chief Minister's statement to the media on Wednesday in which he had called senior BJP leader P.K. Dhumal as the patron of corruption, the party spokesman said Mr. Singh's nervousness and his counter-questions were self explanatory because he is evidently guilty now.

Not once but on several occasions had the "corrupt cop" been helped by the Chief Minister himself, claimed the BJP.

Instead of suspending Thind for his involvement in bungling funds in a PSU called Agro Packaging Industries Limited, the Government alleviated him to the out-of-turn post of Additional Director General of Police. Despite a trial court's decision of holding Thind guilty in a scam the Government gave him the all-important departments of CID and Enforcement, said Sharma.

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