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Patna,(BiharTimes): Former Director General of Police (DGP) Narayan Mishra, whose property have been ordered to be confiscated by the Vigilance Court on Wednesday, directly blamed his successor, Ashish Ranjan Sinha, who, according to him was close to chief minister Nitish Kumar, for falsely implicating him in case. The Vigilance had slapped case under Anti-Corruption Act in February 2007, a few months before his retirement. |
Mishra said on Thursday that he was implicated to save the skin of Ashish Ranjan Sinha. He said that in his entire career of about four decades there was not a single complaint or charge against him and the government never sought explanation on any issue.
Mishra, a 1969 batch IPS officer, comes from Cuttuck in Odisha. He is now planning to challenge the Vigilance Court’s confiscation order, as per the provisions of Bihar Special Court Act, 2009, in the High Court.
Mishra said the house, ordered to be confiscated, was built by him with bank loan. “In my entire career, no one ever raised finger on me,” Mishra who retired in June 2007 as DG (Homeguards), was quoted in the media as saying.
The Vigilance Court presided over by R C Mishra had on Wednesday pronounced the order authorizing the Patna district magistrate to confiscate a four storied house at Rukanpura in the name of Mishra, another house in Bihta in the name of his wife and plots of land in the names of his two sons and daughters-in-law. The total asset is said to be of Rs 1.40 crore.
The tug-of-war for supremacy between Ashish Ranjan and Mishra is quite known in the police circle. Though Ashish Ranjan became new Bihar DGP on May 2, 2005 during the President’s Rule by the then Governor Buta Singh yet he was considered close to Nitish Kumar, who became the chief minister on November 24 in the same year.
Before becoming DGP Ashish Ranjan Sinha was DG (Vigilance). He succeeded Narayan Mishra, who was shifted from the post of the DGP to be made the Managing Director, Bihar State Police Construction Corporation during the President’s Rule.
Ashish Ranjan served as the DGP till April 9, 2008. He was made DG (Homeguard) after the mounting opposition pressure of deteriorating law and order situation in the state. So both Mishra and Ashish did not retire as DGP, but as DG (Homeguards).
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