SHO shunted out for helping land grabbers

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Oct 14 2015 | 7:42 PM IST
The Station House Officer of Bindapur police station has been shunted out for allegedly working in cahoots with land-grabbers at Matiala village in southwest Delhi, police said today.
Bindapur SHO Vijay Pal allegedly connived with anti- social elements, who worked for a land-grabbing gang. They were threatening a person, who had inherited an ancestral land.
They had their eyes on the land inherited by the complainant and had allegedly forged sales deed for it, said a senior official at Delhi Police's vigilance branch.
During the probe, it emerged that the complainant had filed several complaints at the local police station and made PCR calls about anti-social elements coming regularly to their land, armed with guns to terrorize them and their tenant, he said.
But the local police did not take legal action against them, said the senior official.
On the intervention of senior officers, once a case was registered against the anti-social elements but on the very next day a cross case was registered against the complainants which later turned out to be false, the official added.
"The SHO has been shifted out on the orders of the Commissioner of Police following an inquiry conducted by the Vigilance Branch.
"Action was recommended in the matter by the Vigilance Branch to the Police Headquarters, as the SHO failed to exhibit upright conduct and tried to distort the facts," said Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat, adding that the SHO has presently been transferred to a "non-sensitive" unit.
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First Published: Oct 14 2015 | 7:42 PM IST

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