Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 1: The Government today suspended two Police officers with immediate effect and attached both of them to Zonal Police Headquarters.
Among the suspended officials include Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Budgam Gowhar Ahmad Khan and Deputy Superintendent of Police Adil Mushtaq.
“In terms of Rule 31(1) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1956, pending an inquiry into his conduct, Gowhar Ahmad Khan, Addl Superintendent of Police Budgam, is hereby placed under suspension with immediate effect”, read the Government order.
“It is further ordered that the officer shall remain attached with Zonal Police Headquarters Kashmir, during the period of suspension”, read the order further.
An official said that Khan was suspended after an inquiry ordered last month established the professional misconduct.
He said that Khan is accused of extorting around Rs 17 lakh from an OGW of militants whose case he was investigating. The official said that the OGW was allegedly involved in terror funding.
He said that he accompanied by the OGW travelled to Dubai in August this year without taking permission from the Government.
The official said that he had faked the illness of his wife to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Budgam but the SSP later visited his residence in Police Housing Colony Bemina and found his wife there. “He had also misled his wife by telling her that he was sent to Dubai for Police training course,” the official said.
In the meantime, DySP Adil Mushtaq, who was arrested last month was also suspended today.
The Government order read that he deemed to be under suspension from 21-09-2023, the date of his arrest in a case pertaining to the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
“In terms of Rule 31(2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Classification Control & Appeal) Rules, 1956, Adil Mushtaq, Deputy Superintendent of Police, PID No. KPS155772, shall be deemed to have been placed under suspension with effect from 21-09-2023 i.e the date of arrest of the officer in case FIR No. 149/2023 under Section 7, 7A of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and section 167, 193, 201, 210, 218, 221 of IPC in Police Station Nowgam”, read the order.
Adil was arrested by police in Srinagar last month after “disturbing and highly sensitive evidence” came from the disclosure of one of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative Muzamil Zahoor which was corroborated by the expert opinion of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In or ICERT).
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