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NEW DELHI: Expressing his anguish over what he described as denial of credit to the police for their good work, police commissioner Neeraj Kumar told TOI that he was personally targeted during his tenure. In a freewheeling interview, Kumar said that just as he had solved many important cases, he had also solved the mystery of the "tirade" against him - he said some people whom he had arrested when he was in CBI had hatched a conspiracy against him. He refused to reveal names, saying he will speak in detail after he retires.
Kumar said he was intrigued by the fact that the "tirade" was against him and not against the police force. "To put it very simply, certain people I had arrested when I was in CBI went after me. They bankrolled the whole thing," he alleged. "And how I have come to know about it and how I have solved the mystery is that a member of that team broke ranks with them. Why? Because there was a sting operation on him and some of his conversations were recorded. And he realised that he was helping high-class crooks. And then he called me up and said he wanted to meet me and apologise. He came and gave me the entire story, not only this story but every story...even how this case in high court was filed challenging my appointment and so on. It was part of the same tirade. And he also explained why it started from a certain quarter and then gathered steam."
Asked about his state of mind during the Nirbhaya protests at India Gate, Kumar said: "In all fairness, the Government of India and the lieutenant-governor were solidly behind us and believed me. Not for a minute did I face any kind of worry or was shaken because I knew that we had done everything right."
The police chief, who is due to retire by the end of this month, said people don't know that it was his insistence with the government that was behind the setting up of a commission of inquiry after the Nirbhaya protests. "It was I who requested that there should be a commission of inquiry. It was I who suggested to the government that there should be a high-level committee, headed by an eminent judge, to go into the rape laws. The reaction of the government was - 'Why a commission of inquiry, our police has done no wrong?'. But I said 'maybe that will defuse the situation....people will be satisfied and they will disperse'." He added that it took some amount of persuasion to convince the government.
He pointed out that by doing so he was sticking out his own neck and that of his officers too. "These poor people (officers against whom inquiry is on) are unnecessarily being hounded....a special CP, a joint CP, an additional CP, two DCPs - they are all facing disciplinary action for no fault of theirs," he said.
Kumar questioned the basis of the inquiry that was ordered to examine alleged police lapses - it was an interview of Nirbhaya's friend to a TV channel. "What he said in that TV interview is totally in contradiction to what he said before the courts - the main court in Saket and the juvenile court. He stuck to his original statement (given in court), but in the TV interview, he said things like the PCR did not come and that there was fighting over jurisdiction. On the basis of that interview was an inquiry ordered," he recalled.
Kumar reiterated that the police is not given its due for all the hard work that it does. "We faced so much criticism in the (Nirbhaya) rape case...has any newspaper highlighted that the case was cracked within 72 hours and the accused arrested from the interiors of a Naxalite-infested area where the local police was scared to go? Our people without any help from the local police went and caught them and brought them here. Within 10 days - it is a record in this country - the case was chargesheeted and within record time the prosecution evidence is over."
(Full text of interview on Sunday)
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