Chhattisgarh police on Friday have filed a case against IPSꩵ officer G P Singh under the charge of sedition. The IPS officer was already bearing suspension in connection🥀 to a disproportionate assets case.
IPS Officer G P Singh was booked under IPC sections 124-A for sedition and 153-A for inciting communal disharmony at Rai⭕pur’s City Kotwali police station on late Thℱursday night
Chhattisgarh police on Friday have filed a case against IPSꩵ officer G P Singh under the charge of sedition. The IPS officer was already bearing suspension in connection🥀 to a disproportionate assets case.
According to the officials, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of t𒊎he state have already conducted raids at his premises.
According to police, the documents 🧸recovered during the raids revealed that Singh was allegedly involved in promoting enmity and hatching a conspiracy against the established government and public representatives.
Singh was booked under IPC🌟 sections 124-A (sedition) and 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc) of the IPC at Rai🍰pur’s City Kotwali police station late on Thursday night, Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajay Yadav said.
The action was taken based on the seizure report 💎f♏iled by ACB/EOW to police in connection with the raids, he said.
Further investigation into the matter is underway, he addꦯed.
The ACB/EOW which carried a three-day search at around 15 locations linked to Singh, aܫn Additional Director 𓆉General (ADG) rank officer, from July 1 to 3, claimed to have discovered movable and immovable assets worth around Rs 10 crore.
Singh, a 1994-batch officer, 🉐who was earlier ADG of the ACB and EOW, was posted as director of the state police academy before being suspended on July 5.
During the raid at the official residence of Singh here in Pension Bada, some pie🧔ces of torn papers were found from the backyard of the house. When pieces of papers were rearranged, serious and sensitive cont𝓡ents were found to be written and typed on it, the FIR said.
“These papers contained objectionable comments against leaders of reputed political parties along with detailed plans of conspiracy. Besides, secret assessments related to representatives and candidates of different assembly constituencies along with comments on serious issues of the concerned area were also written on it. The papers also contained critical comments on several governmen🥃t schemes, policies, social and religious issues”, it said.
Similarly, the raid at the house of Mani Bhushan, an associate of Singh, here, unearthed a five-page document, in which comments were written in English against public representatives, officials, government schem♓es and policies, it added.
T🌜he seized documents contain provocative contents that can promote hatred and dissatisfaction against the gov🐓ernment, the FIR said.
(With PTI Inputs)