Vanzara alleges discrimination, promote all encounter-accused

Retired IPS officer D G Vanzara, who is out on bail in two fake encounter cases, has alleged discrimination in recent promotions and reinstatements of IPS officers in Gujarat discharged or are out on bail in these cases.
Demanding promotion for himself and all the 15 co-accused police officers like it was done by Rajasthan government, Vanzara threatened that all the politicians and police officers who were discharged in the encounter cases "will not be allowed to go scot-free if other accused are not given their due". Vanzara sought a "notional" promotion in his case.
In a letter written to the Gujarat government, Vanzara also objected to the promotion of IPS officer Geetha Johri, who was discharged from the case recently, saying it was "outrightly unlawful and hasty".

"...She has been wrongly promoted by deviating from the standard procedure to save the skin of all the accused persons who are discharged from the case by CBI court, especially that of (BJP chief) Amitbhai Shah and P C Pandey (another police officer, accused in Sohrabuddin case)," it said
"It was Johri in league with Pandey and Amit Shah who created sorry state of affairs for Gujarat police in general and accused police officers and men in particular," Vanzara alleged.
"All these (15) reinstated officers and policemen have become overdue for more than one promotions. Their promotions are kept in abeyance...," his letter sent to the additional chief secretary G R Aloria said.

"The police officers and men have applied...For promotion on parity with co-accused police officer Dinesh M N who has been given three promotions at one go by the government of Rajasthan," he said.

Vanzara said even if the police officers are discharged, they can be arraigned again as accused.
"Hence I can only assure all the discharged accused politicians and police officers in Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram encounter case that they will not be allowed to go scot-free, if they tried to serve their own interest at the cost of legitimate interests of remaining accused police officers and men who will be facing the trial," he said.

"...Denying us our lawful promotion will be an act of great provocation to us which may lead to some unknown consequences..., the letter warns.
Vanzara has sought promotion for IPS officer P P Pandey to DGP rank, for Rajkumar Pandian to the rank of IGP, Abhay Chudasma as DIGP, and one promotion of selection grade to G L Singhal and Vipul Agrawal.
He has sought N K Amin's promotion to IPS grade, and promotions for B R Chaubey, N V Chauhan, Santram Sharma, Ajay Parmar, Ajaypalsinh Yadav, K H Chauhan, Vinodkumar Limbachiya, Kanji Katchi and Anaju Chaudhari.
"Apart from stated officer, I, D G Vanzara, DIG retired, have also applied for my notional promotion to the rank of inspector general of police...," the letter said.

The copies of the letter have been marked to personal secretaries of Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, minister of state for home Rajnikant Patel and DGP P C Thakur.