CBI Joint Director, retired ACP get 3-month jail over IRS officer’s arrest 26 years ago
A Delhi court on Tuesday sentenced a sitting CBI Joint Director and a retired Delhi Police officer to three-month imprisonment for criminal trespass, assault and mischief while arresting an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer in October 2000. The duo was convicted on April 18.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO “… such mala fide actions, on the part of senior public officers, have the effect of shaking the societal conscience and the faith of the general public on the law of the land and in such a situation, if a lenient view is taken against the convicts, the same would set a dangerous precedent,” said Judicial Magistrate First Class Shashank Nandan Bhatt of Tis Hazari Court in the sentencing order.“… they acted with prior concert and a pre-arranged plan to arrest the complainant with the sole motive of denying him the fruits of the order dated 28.09.2000 passed by CAT, whereby the review of his deemed suspension was ordered,” he added. On April 18, CBI Joint Director Ramneesh (Ramnish Geer) and Delhi Police retired ACP V K Pandey were convicted in the case filed by 1985-batch IRS officer Ashok Kumar Aggarwal. Aggarwal, represented in court by Advocate Shubham Asri, the complainant was posted as Deputy Director of Enforcement (Delhi Zone) in 1999 and had handled investigations into many highly sensitive cases. Aggarwal alleged he was falsely implicated in a corruption case by one Abhishek Verma, who was being investigated by him in connection with FERA violations, in connivance with the CBI officials. After a raid in March 1999, investigation into a disproportionate assets case against Aggarwal was lodged and he was transferred out of Delhi a year later and subsequently suspended. His transfer was stayed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in September 2000, subject to be reviewed in four weeks. Less than a month after the CAT order, Aggarwal said his house was raided, family locked up in a room while he was forcibly dragged out, resulting in injuries on his right arm.
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