Replying to a question about the rift between two senior police officers in Gurgaon, Chief Minister Manohar lal said that an enquiry by Director General of Police (DGP) has been ordered in this issue and whosoever is found guilty, will be punished.
On the issue of transfer of ACP (Crime) Rajesh Kumar, he said that the transfer has been affected on administrative grounds and not out of any ill-will.
Meanwhile, members of several local Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs), activists of political parties and residents of nearby villages on Friday protested the transfer of a Gurgaon police officer Rajesh Kumar and demanded cancellation of the order.
They said that Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) (crime) Rajesh Kumar was made a scapegoat in the wake of a spat between two top cops in this millennium city.
Posted as staff officer to Gurgaon Police chief Navdeep Singh Virk, Kumar has now been transferred to the 1st Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) as Deputy Superintendent of Police. Haryana Government had on Thursday issued transfer orders of 10 IPS and eight Haryana Police Service officers, including ACP Rajesh Kumar.
Notably, Gurgaon’s Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Bharti Arora had accused her boss, Navdeep Singh Virk, of harassment and wrongly interfering in the enquiry into a high-profile rape case, leading to the Haryana police chief ordering an enquiry, by a senior police officer, into the accusations levelled by two against each other.