Sreekumar becomes DGP after retirement

The officer had shot to fame in August 2004 following his deposition against the Government before the Nanavati-Shah Commission looking into the 2002 Godhra carnage and the riots that followed. Sreekumar was denied a promotion on the grounds that a 1987 case against him, related to the period he was the SP of Kutch, was pending before a court. Subsequently, he was also served a nine-point chargesheet.

He took his case to the Central Administrative Tribunal which gave its ruling in September 2006 in his favour. The state Government then appealed to the vice-chairman of CAT, and subsequently to the Gujarat High Court, but the retired officer came out victorious on both the occasions.

8220;The charges were all cooked up and the judiciary saw through it,8221; said a relieved Sreekumar. Calling it a vindication of his fight, Sreekumar said the order he received on Thursday afternoon showed the strength of the country8217;s judicial system. 8220;It is a big victory against a dispensation that is vindictive and mala fide,8221; he added.