Anticipatory bail refused to IG of Haryana police

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, OCT. 30.

A Delhi court today refused to grant anticipatory bail to the Inspector-General of Haryana police, his wife and son in a case of alleged evasion of Customs duty running into crores.

Dismissing the bail application, the Additional Sessions Judge, Mr. S.N. Dhingra, said: ``Prima facie it appears that in the name of scrap the accused have imported precious metals worth crores of rupees.''

The Judge further observed that Inspector-General Harish Kumar misused his official position to get illegal benefits for a company run by his wife.

The Customs Department alleged that when the consignments reached here from abroad, the police official would send an Inspector to manage the things.

The Customs Department had conducted a raid at a godown of the company in Vasant Kunj here and recovered two truckloads of precious metals.

The Judge further said that the police official, his wife, Renu, and son, Rajkumar had gathered a huge amount of black money, and documents relating to the scam were hushed up at a farm house of a friend of the I.G.

The Special Public Prosecutor of the Customs Department submitted before the court that Vasantkunj-based Messrs Soren International of Ms. Renu had been in the export business since 1989.

When the Department once examined company's examined 33 contained on their being offloaded here, 17 of the containers were found stuffed with tonnes of goods in excess of the permitted volume which meant that the accused had evaded Customs duty of Rs. 1.82 crores on an consignment of Rs. 7 crores, the SPP alleged.

Commenting on the misdemeanour of Haryana's highest police official, the Judge said that when a top police official could indulge in such illegal practices one could well imagine what kind of messages officials at lower ranks would draw.

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