While the trial in the controversial arrest of a former militant liaquat Shah starts on Monday, the Home Ministry and Delhi Police have not initiated any action against police officials indicted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for implicating liaquat in fabricated charges. The NIA’s chargesheet had accused DCP Sanjeev Kumar Yadav and his team in the Delhi Police Special Cell for gross human rights violation and illegally arresting Shah, who landed in India under Surrender Policy of the Jammu & Kashmir Government. The Delhi Police claimed that he was a terrorist planning to conduct serial bomb blasts in Delhi.
The MHA handed over the probe to NIA in March 2013 after the complaint of then J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Discharging Shah from all crimes charged by Delhi Police, NIA’s chargesheet blamed the Special Cell for using the service of an informer to plot weapons in a Hotel in the city. The NIA’s probe also found that police informer Sabir Khan Pathan’s SIM cards were registered at the address of barracks of the Special Cell in lodhi Road. The chargesheet also says the police officers helped the informer to abscond when NIA took over the case. The NIA probe had conclusively established that Delhi Police team had nabbed Shah from the SSB checkpost in Sanauli, when he reached through Nepal.
According to sources, soon after filing the chargesheet NIA chief Sharad Kumar had sent a report to MHA naming all the errant officers and their role in plotting a fake terror story and implicating an innocent man, who landed India along with disabled wife and girl child. DCP Sanjeev Yadav, Inspectors Sanjay Dutt, Dharmeder Kumar and Rahul Kumar, and head constables Manish, Mohammed Iqbal Dar and Gulvir Singh were named by NIA in chargesheet and reported to MHA.
Then Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar had conducted several Press conferences on the incident and reiterating Shah was a terrorist. After NIA exposed the lies of the Delhi Police in January 2015, Kumar pretended that he was not remembering the facts of the case as he was retired two years ago. Shah was among the more than 3,000 youth crossed to Pakistan during the insurgency in Kashmir in early 90s. In 2010, the Centre and the State had announced Surrender Policy to those wished to comeback to home land. After processing his application to return, Shah was facilitated by RAW to enter India through Nepal. He crossed Nepal border and reached the SSB’s check post on March 20, 2013 and nabbed by Delhi Police team and portrayed as terrorist to conduct serial blasts in the city during Holi festival.