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CBI announces Rs 10L on fugitive ADGP
In a first, the CBI on Friday announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh to anyone providing information leading to the arrest of a serving but absconding IPS officer and Additional Director General of Rajasthan Police AK Jain in a fake encounter case of 2006.
Jain has already been declared a proclaimed offender and the move to offer reward comes after he did not turn for hearing of the case despite several summons being were served at his residence.
This is for the first time that a cash reward has been announced against such a senior IPS officer. Besides Jain, CBI also announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh each against Inspector Rajesh Chowdhury and Zulfikar and Assistant Sub-Inspector Arvind.
In its chargesheet filed in June, CBI had alleged Dara Singh, a bootlegger, was taken into illegal custody by the Special Operations Group (SOG) officials from Jaipur Airport and was taken to a lonely place near Amber where he was kept hostage till October 23, 2006, when he was killed in a planned manner.
“The circumstantial evidence shows clearly that Dara was murdered in cold blood by SOG personnel and the same was duly monitored by ADG Police AK Jain, SP SOG A Ponnuchammi and Additional SP Arshad Ali along with other officials and during this entire period Rajendra Rathore (a sitting BJP MLA) was on telephonic touch with Jain, ADGP,” the chargesheet said.
However, the police had claimed Dara was fleeing from its custody when he was shot.
In a first, the CBI on Friday announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh to anyone providing information leading to the arrest of a serving but absconding IPS officer and Additional Director General of Rajasthan Police AK Jain in a fake encounter case of 2006.
Jain has already been declared a proclaimed offender and the move to offer reward comes after he did not turn for hearing of the case despite several summons being were served at his residence.
This is for the first time that a cash reward has been announced against such a senior IPS officer. Besides Jain, CBI also announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh each against Inspector Rajesh Chowdhury and Zulfikar and Assistant Sub-Inspector Arvind.
In its chargesheet filed in June, CBI had alleged Dara Singh, a bootlegger, was taken into illegal custody by the Special Operations Group (SOG) officials from Jaipur Airport and was taken to a lonely place near Amber where he was kept hostage till October 23, 2006, when he was killed in a planned manner.
“The circumstantial evidence shows clearly that Dara was murdered in cold blood by SOG personnel and the same was duly monitored by ADG Police AK Jain, SP SOG A Ponnuchammi and Additional SP Arshad Ali along with other officials and during this entire period Rajendra Rathore (a sitting BJP MLA) was on telephonic touch with Jain, ADGP,” the chargesheet said.
However, the police had claimed Dara was fleeing from its custody when he was shot.
