Raided policemen suspended

TNN / Dec 12, 2007, 01:28 IST

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City police commissioner N Achutha Rao suspended five of his officials who were raided by the Lok Ayukta 37 days ago.

BANGALORE: City police commissioner N Achutha Rao suspended five of his officials who were raided by the Lok Ayukta 37 days ago.
The decision has come after a missive from Lok Ayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde reminding the commissioner to place them under suspension.
He took this decision more than a month after Lok Ayukta sleuths raided the residences of three DySPs, three police inspectors and a DCP.
The raids were carried out on November 4 and the Lok Ayukta wrote a letter on November 9 to the police commissioner to suspend them.

But he had defended his officers saying that under service rules they could not be placed under suspension. Justice Hegde replied that service rules immunity does not apply to them in this case.
Santosh Hegde sent a reminder on Monday to the governor Rameshwar Thakur’s adviser saying if the officials were not suspended, there would be no difference between the honest and the corrupt.
Justice Hegde wryly said: "I do not know whether the police have suspended them following my second letter or if it was a delayed action following my first letter."

The suspended city police officers are G T Ajjappa (ACP, Cubbon Park sub-division), Vishwanath Singh (ACP, Vidhana Soudha security), Mariswamy Gowda (inspector, city intelligence), Siddappa (inspector, Ramamurthynagar) and Mallikarjuna (inspector, Upparpet traffic).
Two police officers who do not come under the police commissioner but under the state government have also been placed under suspension. They are DCP training centre (CAR) Srinivas Iyer and deputy SP at the DGP headquarters, Purushottam.
The raided road transport officials had been placed under suspension soon after Lok Ayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde wrote to the transport commissioner.

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