An intervention by the Delhi High Court has come in the way of dismissal of a senior IPS officer Satish Chandra Verma of Gujarat cadre by the Union Home Ministry.
Satish Chandra Verma, a 1986-batch IPS officer, who had assisted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the investigation into the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan in Gujarat, was dismissed from service on August 30, a month before his scheduled retirement on September 30.
Then Verma approached the Delhi High Court challenging the Home Ministry order and the court barred the Centre from implementing the order, an official said.
Verma faced allegations of custodial torture during the Ishrat encounter probe. Home Ministry’s under secretary RVS Mani said that Verma tortured him by putting cigarette stubs on his thighs to get favourable statements to implicate top IB officials who alerted Gujarat Police about the movement of LeT-linked Ishrat and three other persons, two of whom were from Pakistan
Verma was shunted to the North-Eastern region when the BJP Government came to power in mid-2014. The Government has issued a series of charges against him accusing many violations of service conditions for the past five years. One of the charges was for wrong news planting in the media about Gujarat encounter related cases. The senior police officer was last posted as Inspector General with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Tamil Nadu.