Case against Rail DIG in Bihar, arrest order

Patna, Aug 17 (UNI) Deputy Inspector General(DIG) of Rail, Ajay Verma, who had earlier faced ire of the Bihar government for his outburst against higher authorities, was once again in trouble following an IG rank officer found him guilty in a case and recommended for action.

Home secretary Afzal Amanullah today said that Inspector General (Muzaffarpur Range) Sunit Kumar had found Mr Verma guilty in a case lodged with the Town police station in Vaishali district on January 23, 2006. On the basis of report a lawful action against the DIG (rail) would be initiated, he added.

Meanwhile, Mr Verma while talking to newspersons questioned the order of his arrest saying that when the case was registered on January 23, 2006 in what circumstances, arrest order was issued after August 15. He said the order should have been issued with the institution of the case.

Mr Verma pleaded that since he took up the charges as DIG (Rail) and initiated investigation of a scam of National Saving Certificates (NSCs) and Kisan Vikas Patra (KVPs) worth crores of rupees involving several VIPs. The NSCs and KVPs were stolen in February 1998 by breaking the seal of the bogey of a goods train stationed at Patna Junction. " I was now being implicated in such case with the sole motive to create hinderance into the inquiry of the scam", he added.

Mr Verma wrote a letter to the ADG CID, Anand Shankar and requested him to personally supervise the case in which he was being implicated. In the letter, he mentioned the act of Mr Kumar as prejudice one saying that the supervision report of Mr Kumar reveals he was having some personal grievances against me.

He said the case lodged at Hajipur police station against him and informed that as per the FIR he alongwith his wife had forcibly taken away some documents from the house of one Mr Rajendra Rai and had also threatened him at gun point for his physical elimination.

He said in fact the case was actually between Mr Rai and his wife over some property dispute which was being heard by a court.

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