DEHRA DUN, OCT 30: A young Indian Police Service (IPS) officer is paying the price for taking on his own colleague over the case of a missing computer.Journalist-turned-policeman Abhinav Kumar was recently posted to Dehra Dun as Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP). Soon after his transfer, Kumar claims, he discovered that a Rs 1-lakh computer system given to the department by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd was neither present in his office nor registered in the property list at the local police lines.Kumar says that after he made discreet enquiries among the staff members, he was told that the computer was actually installed at the residence of his predecessor, Sharad Sachhan. The ASP says he made verbal requests to Sachhan to return the computer, but Sachhan didn't do so, forcing him to lodge an FIR against the officer two months ago.Apparently the very next day, the ``neatly packed'' computer somehow made its way back to one of the store-rooms of the office of the Superintendent of Police (City), from where it was recovered. While Kumar may have succeeded in his efforts, he says he has been made to pay since then by senior colleagues who haven't taken kindly to his lodging a complaint against a fellow officer.Sachhan himself reportedly wrote to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) claiming that the computer had all along been lying in the store-room of his office and that he had been made a scapegoat in a case of personal rivalry.Though two months have passed, Kumar says his senior officials have done nothing except referring the case to an officer for investigations. S.S. Baghel, the Investigating Officer (IO) in the case, confirms that a probe is on. He adds that Sachhan, currently posted in Bijnore as Additional Superintendent of Police, will also be summoned to depose before him soon. However, no departmental inquiry has been ordered in the case as yet.
