Bansi trying to obstruct revoking of suspension, says former DGP

CHANDIGARH, July 12: Former Director General of Police of Haryana Ramesh Sehgal has alleged mala fide against Chief Minister Bansi Lal, saying his suspension had not been revoked in spite of him having been discharged in the bribery case, allegedly “framed” against him.

Speaking to mediapersons here today, the former DGP alleged that Bansi Lal was now trying to “cook up” another case against him on political grounds for extending his suspension. “Ever since he came to power, he has been trying to implicate me in some case or another, by holding inquiries against me,” he said, adding that “when he failed, he finally got me booked in the bribery case, in which I have already been discharged.” “No legal case is pending against me, yet I continue to be suspended,” Sehgal said, adding that the Central Government has not granted permission to prosecute him, since the government had used a proclaimed offender, Surinder Puran Singh, and a murder convict, Gurpreet Singh, as witnesses against him in this case.

He alleged that Bansi Lal had mala fide against him since 1977 when he had deposed before the Capoor Commission against him in the infamous Revasa incident, where a brother and sister were stripped naked and forced to sleep together in a police station in 1972.

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Sehgal said that Bansi Lal had now embroiled him in another case, by serving him a charge-sheet for having extended the parole of a convict, Dhiraj Pahwa, whose mother was ailing and later died.

Sehgal further alleged that since CAT had granted four months to the government for disposing of his bribery case, the government was finding ways to implicate him elsewhere, only to extend his suspension.