Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi has initiated a separate vigilance enquiry in connection with the ‘shootout’ in which Manoj Vashisht, an alleged real estate cheat was killed. Bassi on Tuesday transferred nine personnel involved in the alleged encounter on Saturday night. The investigation by the vigilance is separate from the SIT (special investigating team) and magisterial enquiries already underway in this case.
The decision was taken after Vashisht’s widow Priyanka and other family members, who are alleging that he was killed in a fake encounter, met Bassi and demanded a fair probe into the case. Vashisht’s family met the Police Commissioner at his office at Police HQs and shared their grievances. Bassi sympathised with them and assured them of an impartial investigation in the case. “On family’s demand that those part of the special team should be transferred so that they cannot affect probe, some key members of the team who had carried out the operation in which Vashisht was gunned down have been transferred. A vigilance enquiry in the case has also been marked,” said Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat.