
Six days after DGP PS Pasricha told the Bombay High Court that 10 policemen had been transferred in connection with the disappearance of Khwaja Yunus, it appears that some of the transfer orders may be reversed. Only four of the policemen had been named accused by the state CID; the remaining six, including encounter specialists, had 8220;come under a cloud8221; in the case.
Sources at police headquarters said none of the 10 policemen was willing to move out of the city and had made representations to the Home Department, saying there was not enough evidence against them, which was why they were neither arrested nor suspended.
DGP Pasricha said he had not reversed the transfer orders yet but he would reconsider them provided the state CID had no issues. 8220;If the officers feel aggrieved and want to approach the court or the higher authority, I do not have any problem. And if tomorrow the Additional Director General of Police CID writes to me that some these officers are out of the zone of suspicion, I do not have any problem in reconsidering my orders,8221; the DGP said.
Sources said some of the policemen were taking advantage of the fact that the court8217;s directions were limited to policemen serving in the city despite being named by the CID in the list of 14 policemen accused in the alleged custodial death of 1993 Ghatkopar blast accused Khwaja Yunus, a software engineer. Acting on a petition filed by Yunus8217;s mother, the HC had ordered the transfer of all these policemen to allow the state CID to conduct an impartial probe.