Chhattisgarh police on Friday have filed a case against IPS officer G P Singh under the charge of sedition. The IPS officer was already bearing suspension in connection to a disproportionate assets 𒊎case.
According to the officials, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Economic Offences Wing (EOW) o🍷f the state have already conducted raids at his premises.
According to police, the doꦑcuments recovered during the raids revealed that Singh was allegedly involved in promoting enmity and hatching ൩a 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 Raipur’s City Kotwali police 🐬station late on Thursday night, Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajay Yadav said.
The action was taken ba⛦sed on ꦜthe seizure report filed by ACB/EOW to police in connection with the raids, he said.
Further investigation into t🧜he matter is underway, he ad♎ded.
The ACB/EOW which carried a three-day search at around 15 locations li𒉰nked to Singh, an Additional Director General (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 direc🍌tor of the state🐠 police academy before being suspended on July 5.
During the raid at th🃏e official re🐲sidence of Singh here in Pension Bada, some pieces of torn papers were found from the backyard of the house. When pieces of papers were rearranged, serious and sensitive contents were found to be written and typed on it, the FIR said.
“These papers contained objectionable comments against leaders of rep💎uted 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 a🐟lso written on it. The papers also contained critical comments on several government 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 E💧nglish against public representatives, officials, government schemes and policies, it added.
The seized documents contain provocative contents that can promote hatred and dissไatisfaction against the government, the FIR said.
(With PTI Inputs)