The 4 cops are among the 13 constabulary unit who are being investigated successful a disproportionate assets lawsuit (Express Photo)
Gujarat DGP Vikas Sahay has suspended 4 constabulary personnel, including a caput constable and 3 constables, for allegedly travelling to overseas countries aggregate times without support oregon informing the superiors. The 4 cops are among the 13 constabulary unit who are being investigated successful a disproportionate assets case.
Head Constable Firoz Khan Pathan, and constables Mahipatsinh Chauhan, Mahendrasinh Darbar, and Harvijaysinh Chavda were suspended for their aggregate visits to Thailand, Singapore and the UAE. While Pathan is posted successful Botad, Chauhan and Darbar are posted successful Jamnagar, and Chavda successful Amreli.
The 4 unit were suspended based connected a confidential study submitted by the State Monitoring Cell (SMC) to the constabulary chief. Notably, the study connected the unauthorised overseas question is portion of a larger probe into the disproportionate assets allegedly accumulated by 13 constabulary unit being probed by SMC DIG Nirlipt Rai arsenic ordered by the DGP.
The 13 constabulary unit had each been shunted retired of Ahmedabad City Police and posted crossed the authorities successful November 2024 connected suspicions of corruption, said sources astatine Police Bhavan.
A elder officer, connected information of anonymity, said the larger probe into their disproportionate assets remains a abstracted enquiry altogether but the confidential study connected their overseas travels had been submitted to the DGP aft grounds surfaced during the superior investigation.
DGP Sahay remained unavailable for comment.
Meanwhile, the different 9 unit nether probe are besides apt to beryllium suspended successful the coming days aft the SMC probe recovered that galore of them had besides engaged successful unauthorised home question during their posting successful Ahmedabad city. Several of them had travelled to Maharashtra, Rajasthan arsenic good arsenic Jammu and Kashmir, said a elder officer.
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