IPS Vikas Sahay to probe into allegations of malpractice against Rajkot Police Commissioner

Gandhinagar: The state government has handed over the investigation on graft allegations against Rajkot Police Commissioner Manoj Agarwal to DGP (Training) Vikas Sahay.

The graft allegations were made in a letter by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Govind Patel addressing state home minister Harsh Sanghavi. The investigation was earlier handed over to crime branch ACP IPS Khurshid Ahmed, who was junior to the rank of police commissioner. As per the police manual, the investigation should be handed over to a police official senior to the police officer on whom the allegations of corruption are made. So, the investigation was handed over to DGP (training) Vikas Sahay. Rajkot CP Manoj Agarwal is IPS of 1991 batch and DGP (training) Vikas Sahay is IPS of 1989 batch. So, he is senior to Rajkot CP Manoj Agarwal by 2 years. DGP (training) Vikas Sahay informed that the inquiry is started in this case and the process of taking statement will be also started with immediate effect.

BJP MLA Govind Patel had alleged in a letter that Rajkot Police Commissioner was taking percentage money like goons for recovered money. He had demanded 15 % commission of the recovered money from victims of financial fraud, he added. He alleged that in a case of fraud with a Rajkot based businessman Mahesh Sakhiya, the Rajkot CP, crime branch PI Gadhvi and PSI Sakhra had demanded 15 % of the recovered amount of Rs 7 crore. They have already received Rs 75 lakh and put a pressure to pay the remaining Rs 30 lakh. DeshGujarat