Retired cops, advocate held for framing man in false drug case

The CID (Crime) arrested two retired police officials and an advocate tonight in connection with an alleged fake narcotic drug trafficking case, a senior police official said today.
They are retired Superintendent of Police Jitendra Rajgor, Retired Deputy Superintendent of Police Bhagirathsinh Jadeja and an advocate Jagdish Ramani, DIG CID (Crime) R J Savani told PTI.
The CID would produce them in court tomorrow and seek their remand, he said.
They were arrested in connection an allegedly false case of narcotic drug trafficking in order to implicate one Prakash Pillai. The accused had allegedly conspired to put Pillai behind the bars for 20 years by falsely accusing him of being a drug trafficker.

However, Pillai managed to fight back and prove that the case made out against him was false and that evidence was planted in his residence by the police in order to frame him in a false case, he claimed.
"Some of the accused even tried to implicate Pillai again by dragging his name into another false drug trafficking case in Madhya Pradesh in 2007. The idea was to prove that Pillai was a drug peddler," DIG CID (Crime) Savani said.

He charged the "Vadodara cops had flouted all rules while raiding Pillai's house in 2006. One of the police inspectors reached Pillai's residence which was not under his jurisdiction. Further investigations may show the involvement of more cops," Savani said.

After being arrested in April 2006, Pillai spent some months in jail and then filed a complaint online and approached senior police officials.
The case was then transferred to CID (Crime) which carried out the arrests. Pillai has been made a complainant in the case.