Find out where absconding IPS officer is: Allahabad HC directs UP
The Hindu
In Mahoba businessman "suicide" case, suspended Superintendent of Police of Mahoba Manilal Patidar, is still missing.
Noting that an IPS officer is missing for many months was a “serious issue,” the Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to investigate if suspended Superintendent of Police of Mahoba Manilal Patidar, who is absconding since being accused of abetment of suicide of a businessman, was dead or alive and what efforts were made to apprehend him. The family of Mahoba businessman Indrakant Tripathi – who died last September after being found shot in his car days after he had accused the 2014-batch IPS officer of threatening to eliminate him — had lodged an FIR against Mr. Patidar, then district police chief, under murder and conspiracy. However, following a probe by a Special Investigation Team the charges were downgraded to abetment to suicide. Mr. Patidar, meanwhile, continued to evade arrest and his pleas for anticipatory bail were rejected by the court. In an order dated May 27, the HC directed the agency investigating the cases against Mr. Patidar to file an affidavit explaining what efforts were made by them to arrest him after tracing his whereabouts when his anticipatory bail applications were rejected. The court also asked if any complaint or representation had been received at any level from the family members of the IPS officer of him having become untraceable, if so, what action was taken on such complaint.More Related News