DGP acquitted in cheating case

Indore, Jan 22 (UNI) A special court today acquitted Madhya Pradesh Director General of Police (Home Guards) Swaraj Puri in a case related to getting his son admitted in an engineering college under NRI quota for lack of evidence.

Issuing the orders after analysing a report submitted by the Economic Offences Wing of the police in this regard, Special Judge Akhilesh Pandya said prima facie there was no evidence to implicate Mr Puri of fraud by submitting fake documents or of misusing his position as a public servant.

In a complaint lodged on September 6, Indore-resident Mahesh Garg had alleged that Mr Puri had got his son Shreyas Puri admitted in a government engineering college under NRI quota on the basis of fake documents and misusing his post.

The local sessions court had ordered the EOW to investigate the matter.

Mr Puri was removed from the post of Director General of Madhya Pradesh Police after a criminal case for cheating and Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against him, his son Shreyas and Indore businessman Babulal Somani for presenting fake documents to facilitate his son's admission under NRI quota in Indore's Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science in 2001. He passed out of the institute last year.

Mr Puri, who is scheduled to retire in August this year, was later shifted to the Home Guards after the EOW registered a case against him.

Later, the High Court's Indore bench had ordered to quash the FIR but allowed the EOW to continue the investigation.

UNI