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Patna,(BiharTimes): Ratn Sanjay, the IPS officer who shot into fame after he, as the SP of Siwan, got the then RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin arrested in 2005 and is now with the Central Bureau of Investigation, is in trouble.
Along with four deputy superintendents of police earlier posted at Muzaffarpur, they all have come under the scanner of the Vigilance Investigation Bureau, assigned to probe into alleged financial irregularities worth Rs 71 crore.
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The four DSPs are Dheeraj Kumar, Arvind Kumar Gupta, Shanker Jha and Manish Kumar. They are posted in different districts. The last named is at present posted as DSP (Headquarters) in Muzaffarpur.
The Special Vigilance Court judge (Muzaffarpur) Arun Kumar Singh recently issued a directive to the Vigilance Investigation Bureau headquarters in Patna, asking to conduct a through probe into the case, which was earlier probed by the district police.
The Court, according to reports, took strong exception to the alleged lackadaisical attitude of the investigating officer as most of the accused were public servants. It further said the onus lies on all these senior police officials whose negligence led to excess withdrawal of money from the treasury.
The Court expressed surprise over chargesheets submitted in the court against only five out of the eight named accused in the case. The chargesheets were submitted against Sushil Kumar Choudhary (head clerk posted in the SP’s office), Shakuntala Devi and Baby Kumari (woman constables), Indu Shekher and Anita Choudhary.
The report also said that the investigating officer failed to submit chargesheet against three named accused, Rajiv Ranjan, Dinesh Prasad and Pankaj Kumar, in spite of enough evidence against them. The Court felt that it seems that investigation is not being carried out in a proper manner.
As reported earlier a sum of Rs 1.62 crore was withdrawn from the Muzaffarpur district treasury by furnishing the signature of the then SP Ratn Sanjay.
In the same way, Dheeraj Kumar’s signature was used to withdraw Rs 34.10 crore, Manish Kumar’s signature to withdraw Rs 3.24 crore, Arvind Kumar Gupta’s signature to withdraw Rs 9.41 crore and Shanker Jha’s signature was used to withdraw Rs 22.20 crore respectively. The DSPs happen to be the treasury officers. The money for the payment of salary and other allowances is withdrawn by the designated treasury offices.
The money was withdrawn during financial year 2006-07. The police had seized Rs 80 lakh from the houses of Shakuntala and Baby during a raid on October 2 last year. The alleged kingpin of the racket, Sushil Kumar Choudhary, was arrested on the directive of incumbent Muzaffarpur SSP Sunil Kumar.
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