Love struck Commandant of a Central Armed Paramilitary Force (CAPF) allegedly planted 'charas' in the car of a Rajasthan cadre woman IAS officer's husband to implicate him in a false case. Sources said the Commandant wanted to marry the IAS officer and hatched a conspiracy to get her husband arrested on the charges of narcotic substance peddling.
The IAS officer's husband who works as consultant with the Ministry of the Information and Technology, was detained after police found 550 grams of charas inside his car which was parked outside the Electronics Niketan in CGO Complex. Police have registered an FIR at Lodhi Colony police station under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and further investigation is underway.
Sources said, 45-year-old Commandment Ranjan Pratap Singh, currently posted with Ministry of External Affairs and his childhood friend Neeraj Chauhan, a lawyer by profession allegedly hatched a conspiracy to falsely implicate the husband the IAS officer in drug related case as the commandant has developed liking for the bureaucrat at a seminar.
"A call was received by police regarding a suspicious car standing at Electronics Niketan in CGO Complex following which a police team reached the spot and found 550 grams of charas in the car. However, when the caller, who is a cart-puller, was approached by police he told police that a passerby had taken his phone to make an emergency call," said the source.
"Later the caller was narrowed down with the help of CCTV footage in the area and he was apprehended," said the source. The car was found in suspicious condition by a CISF official after the caller informed about a packet containing charas,” said an official.
"Rajan first tried to mislead police but when he was countered with other technical evidences, he confessed of planting drugs in the car with the help of his advocate friend. During interrogation, the accused disclosed that he had met IAS officer during a training programme and developed fondness. He wanted to falsely implicate her husband in drug peddling case," said a police official privy to investigation.
"He brought charas from his hometown in Aligarh and involved his friend Neeraj to whom he had promised smooth treatment in AIIMS through his contacts," said the police official.
"To plant the drugs inside the car and to gain access, Singh followed the car for two days and on Wednesday when the man visited a hospital in Pragati Vihar in South Delhi, the accused got open the car with the help of key maker. He brought the key maker from Lajpat Nagar market and asked him to open the car and had left the car keys inside," said the police official.