Accused of submitting fake ST certificate, ACP in Surat dismissed; was due to retire in a few weeks
Chaudhary had been posted in Surat city police department as ACP, K Division, for the last three years.
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Police sources said that the home department had directed the Social Welfare department to probe Chaudhary's caste certificate.Over 30 years after he joined service, and a few weeks before he was set to retire, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in Surat, B M Chaudhary, was dismissed from his duties following an order by the State Home Department in this regard on Wednesday. Chaudhary was accused of submitting a fake caste certificate of Scheduled Tribe (ST) at the time of recruitment for the post of police sub-inspector in 1993. Chaudhary was due to retire on June 30.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 5, R P Barot said, “We have received an order of dismissal of ACP B M Chaudhary (Bapu Motiram Chaudhary) from the state home department on May 20. We have handed a copy to him, and he has been relieved from his duties with immediate effect. He worked in the Gujarat police department in different districts and cities for the past 30 years.”
While Chaudhary could not be contacted for comment, his nephew Jitendra insisted that they belong to ST category only.
Jitendra, a resident of Kukarmunda, said, “My uncle was born and brought up in Kukarmunda in Tapi district. In Maharashtra, our Chaudhary caste is known as Teli Chaudhary, and it falls in the OBC category. But in Gujarat, the Chaudhary caste falls in the Scheduled Tribe category.”
Earlier, Gujarat and Maharashtra were a single state. On May 1, 1960, when Gujarat was split from then Bombay state, Kukarmunda was included in Tapi district in the newly formed state.
Chaudhary had been posted in Surat city police department as ACP, K Division, for the last three years. He was in charge of three police stations: Pal, Adajan, and Rander.
Jitendra claimed that Chaudhary took primary education in Kukarmunda and later graduated from Surat city.
After graduation, he participated in the police recruitment drive for sub-inspector post in 1993 and cleared his physical and written tests.
He worked in different districts across Gujarat and was promoted from police sub-inspector to inspector rank after 10 years. He was promoted to ACP rank in 2019. He was transferred to the Surat city police department and deployed as ACP, K division, in 2022.
Sources close to his family said that, around two years ago, somebody from Chaudhary’s family complained to the Director General of Police (DGP) and the state Home department about the alleged fake caste certificate he submitted to get a job in the police department.
Police sources said that the home department had directed the Social Welfare department to probe Chaudhary’s caste certificate.
During the probe, the team visited his house in Kukarmunda, met his relatives, and collected information from government records in the town, said sources. The report was submitted to the State home department, after which a decision to dismiss him was made, said a senior police officer in Surat.
Sources close to Chaudhary said he would take up the issue with the Gujarat High Court in days to come.
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