Five policemen including an Inspector were suspended on Wednesday for allegedly trying to hush up a probe against the prime accused in a cricket betting case here, police said here on Wednesday. City West Superintendent of Police (SP) Abid Khan said, “Inspector Kamlesh Sharma, Assistant Sub Inspector Balram Singh Tomar and Constables Sawant Singh, Ritesh Jat and Satish have been suspended with immediate effect. After stripping them of field duty, the five policemen have been attached to police line.”
Khan further said that Rajendra Nagar police station busted betting on a cricket match going on at Nihalpura Mandi area two days ago. Khan said they later got to know that the five cops were trying to hush up the probe against the prime accused and drop the case against him. After complaint and preliminary investigations, we suspended the policemen, he added.
The SP said his deputy Aditya Pratap Singh was investigating into the complaint further. According to report, Rajendra Nagar police station TI Kamlesh Sharma few days back following a tip off had unearthed betting racket in Shiv City Colony and arrested bookie Alok Jain, a resident of Gumasta Nagar and his accomplices. The accused were, however, set free by the police by taking a bribe of Rs 4.50 lakh from them. In this regard, SI Anoop Yadav and TI Kamlesh Sharma had a tiff and heated argument over lodging report against the accused.
When a complaint to this effect reached DIG Rakesh Gupta, he entrusted SP Abid Khan and ASP Aditya Pratap Singh to probe into the matter. The probe report which was submitted to the DIG only on Tuesday, found TI Kamlesh Sharma, two jawans of Cheetah squad and ASI Balram Singh and another cop guilty in the case.
On the basis of probe report, DIG Rakesh Gupta here on Wednesday issued suspension orders of TI Kamlesh Sharma and other cops and posted senior cop of DRP line R S Soni to Rajendra Nagar police station as new TI.