Noida police destroyed crime records of BSP MLA

Guddu Pandit, the BSP MLA from Debai who was arrested on Sunday, was once feared by the police.

Guddu Pandit, the BSP MLA from Debai who was arrested on Sunday, was once feared by the police. So much was his clout that his historysheet was destroyed from the police records, including the official webpage of Noida police.

“Noida police website has historysheets of all the criminals. But Pandit got it deleted from the website,” said a senior police officer.

Nathi Ram Pawar, SHO, Sector-24 police station, said: “The police station does not have the historysheet of the BSP MLA; we only have his criminal background, from 1993 onwards.”

According to the criminal background document given by the SHO, it was former SSP Satish Ganesh who had ordered destruction of Pandit’s historysheet.

SSP R K Chaturvedi confirmed that the historysheet was ‘officially’ destroyed. “The historysheet of Pandit is not missing. It had been officially destroyed,” he added.

As many as 17 cases are pending against Pandit in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh under various criminal sections.

Meanwhile, with Pandit behind bars, various complainants who had been threatened and cheated by the MLA have started revisiting various police stations to lodge their complaints once again.

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Vinay Verma, a Noida Sector 20 resident, spent two and a half months in Dasna Jail in connection with an alleged carjacking case. Mukesh Sharma, brother of Guddu Pandit, lodged a complaint in Sector 24, Noida, that the Vermas took their Skoda Octavia (DL6CV0999) while they were returning from office. He also alleged that Vinay had threatened them, snatched their wristwatch, around Rs 10,000 and a gold chain.

However, Vinay, who runs a factory in Okhla Industrial Area, said, “I was implicated in a false case as Skoda was sold by Mukesh in 2005 to Kamal Chaddha, who resides in Prashant Vihar, Delhi. Guddu owes me Rs 2 crore, but he is not paying me back the amount. When I told him that I will lodge an FIR, he threatened me, and in a matter of one day, I and my family were slapped with 13 different cases of loot, cylinder stealing and rape,” he added.

A complaint of cylinder loot was also filed against Manoj Goel, who runs 10 petrol pumps in Agra, as he had also lodged an FIR against Pandit at Chitranjan Park police station in Delhi. “Pandit hired a poor man for Rs 5,000 who posed as a person owning a plot in Greater Kailash. He sold me that plot, but when I revisited the place someone else was constructing a building on the plot. I asked Pandit about it, and he threatened me with dire consequences and in return lodged a false FIR of cylinder loot against me,” he alleged.

The anti-corruption officer investigating various criminal cases registered against Vinay alleged the police had been playing at the hands of the BSP MLA. “On a request by complainant Vinay Verma, anti-corruption bureau started investigating the charges against him. Out of the 13 cases against the accused, I was in charge of seven corruption cases. I found Verma innocent. But on May 8 when I reached police headquarters in Lucknow, I got to know that I was transferred. However, I got a stay order from the Allahabad High Court,” said Gopi Chand Verma who was transferred twice allegedly at the behest of the BSP MLA.