Agra SSP on leave, computer man plays cop

Vijay Upadhyay
Agra. When Agra senior superintendent of police Rajiv Krishna went on a week's holiday, hardly did he know that his computer operator would play his duplicate in his absence and effect transfers of policemen by scanning his signatures on to the transfer orders.

However, as soon as Mr Krishna returned, the computer operator and eight policemen have been suspended from duty and a departmental probe ordered into all recent inter-station and inter-post transfers in the district within the past year.

Talking to The Pioneer, SSP Krishna said when he went off on a week's vacation a few days ago, Darshanlal, his computer operator in collusion with seven constables manning the beat in police stations in rural areas of the district, forged his signatures with the help of a computer and scanner and prepared the transfer orders of these constables to police posts in the city.

He said these transfer orders were directly sent to the various desired police posts by a District Crime Record Bureau constable Rambhoot Singh against the usual practice of these orders being signed by the SP (City), a fact that forced this scam out into the open.

According to Mr Krishna, he had ordered the suspension of all nine policemen including the computer operator, besides ordering a departmental probe into all inter-station and inter-post transfers effected in the past year, to ascertain the seriousness of this fraud and to expose the names of other people involved in the crime.

Notably, all the policemen suspended by the SSP for fraud had been posted in rural police posts for a long time.

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