State police explain Kunda transfers in HC

Two others had been transferred before the CBI made the request,the affidavit said.

The state police on Monday told the Allahabad High Court through an affidavit that seven of the nine policemen from Kunda circle of Pratapgarh district were not transferred because they were not assigned any field duties and their help was required in maintaining records,as well as helping the CBI with necessary information. Two others had been transferred before the CBI made the request,the affidavit said.

The affidavit further denied the allegations that these policemen were spared from transfers because of any proximity with former Cabinet Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya,as alleged in the petition filed by 88 out of the 111 policemen.

The petitioners Bajrang Bahadur Singh and 87 others had challenged their transfers effected through a single order on April 3. The high court had,on April 10,sought specific replies from the state on the status of these nine policemen. A single-judge bench of Justice V K Shukla today took the affidavit on record and fixed April 22 as the next date of hearing.

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The transfer order for 111 policemen was passed by the state police following a CBI request on March 28 to transfer all the policemen from four police stations Kunda,Nawabganj,Hathigawa and Manikpur for a free and fair probe into the triple murder cases of Balipur village on March 2.

The then Circle Officer (Kunda) Ziaul Haque,Balipur village pradhan Nanhe Yadav and his younger brother Suresh Yadav were killed in a chain of events on that evening,which occurred under the Hathigawa police station area.

In its affidavit,filed by Circle Officer (City) Pratapgarh,the state police said that out of the nine policemen in question,two had already been transferred out of Kunda circle.

The affidavit said that while Zuber Khan,posted at Kunda police station,was transferred to Sadar Malkhana of Pratapgarh district on December 12,2012,Shamsher Bahadur Singh was transferred from Hathigawan police station to Lalganj police station on March 18,at least 10 days before the CBI wrote the request letter.

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The affidavit further said that six other police personnel were posted with the office of the Kunda Circle Officer and were involved in office work like that of stenographer,Urdu translator and maintaining office records.

These six police personnel are not posted in any of the four police stations in respect of which the request was made by the CBI. Since all these six police personnel are engaged in the office work.and maintenance of record of the Circle Officer,they were not transferred. Moreover,there is no request by the CBI to transfer these police personnel, said the affidavit,a copy of which is available with this newspaper.

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