CHANDIGARH: Punjab's Director General of Police (DGP), human resource development, Siddharth Chattopadhyaya has made serious allegations of “roles” in the drug racket against DGP Suresh Arora, chief of the force, and Dinkar Gupta, DGP, Intelligence. The allegations came in Chattopadhyaya's application to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a suicide case, and the court stayed the probe against the officer.
He said he was being dragged into a suicide case by a probe team led by another DGP-rank officer, LK Yadav, at the behest of Arora and Gupta. Heading a special investigation team (SIT) to look into drug-racket charges against Moga senior superintendent of police (SSP) Raj Jit Singh, Chattopadhyaya said he was being targeted as his probe “brought to light the role of” Arora and Gupta. His application added that a benami house of a “DGP” is among the points being investigated in relation to the drug racket. The complaint is seen as a bold move. DGP Arora was retained by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh as the top boss, even though he was given the post by the previous SAD-BJP regime.
The move comes with only five months remaining for Arora, a 1982-batch IPS officer, to retire in September. As Arora and Gupta are learnt to have a strong rapport and have been working in close co-ordination for years. Both of them are extremely confident of themselves as they have “cracked” high-profile killings in the past two years and have come down heavily on gangsters. Gupta gets an added advantage for being the intelligence unit chief. Meanwhile there were reports of Chattopadhyaya's “involvement” in the suicide of Inderpreet Chadha, who killed himself after his father Charanjit Singh Chadha, the then president of charity Chief Khalsa Diwan, was caught in a video scandal. A senior official said, “Chattopadhyaya has a feeling that his name was dragged into the suicide case just to end his chances for the top post and to derail the SIT investigation into Raj Jit's role.”
