64 police men in Rajkot were on payroll of bootlegger Altaf, reveals his diary

Rajkjot: Total 64 policemen of Rajkot were on the payroll of bootlegger Altaf alias Chh-Angali, as revealed from his diary.

In the case of graft of Rs 95 lakh taken from listed bootlegger Altaf, living in street no-2 of Vijayanagr in Nava Thorala area, for a mruder case, the incharge police commissioner has ordered to stop increment certificate of crime-branch the-then PI VK Gadhvi for 6 months, to start departmental inquiry against investigator PSI Jebaliya, to transfer 3 policemen of crime-branch, and to start inquiry of Zone-2 DCP. The transfers of 11 policemen were already made outside the district in this case.

Bootlegger Altaf remained ‘wanted’ for 2 years in a murder case. When he was caught, a total of 3 diaries were found from him which had details of the graft given by him to the policemen. On the basis of those details, 11 policemen including 8 of crime-branch were transferred outside the district. However, totla 64 policemen had taken installments of the graft from him, as per diary. Out of them, the transfers of the 11 policemen who had taken graft installments for at least 7-times from Altaf were transferred outside the district. These 11 policemen and the graft taken by them as per the diary are: Kuldipsinh: Rs 2.50 lakh, Santoshbhai: Rs 1.31 lakh, Raghubha: Rs 1.20 lakh, Rajubhai: Rs 1.20 lakh, Hardevsinh: Rs 92,500, Mahendrasinh: Rs 84,000, Samir Shaikh: Rs 70,000, Yogibhai: Rs 50,000, Jayesh Gadhvi: Rs 70,000, Akshayrajsinh: Rs 42,000 Ramdevsinh: Rs 69,000.

Bootlegger Altaf had allegedly sold liquor worth over Rs 9 crore within 2 years in collusion with the policemen, when he was ‘wanted’. He sold around 70 thousand boxes of liquor, which is equal to over 100 trucks. He made an income of around Rs 9 crore from the same. His earning was over Rs 3 crore, after omitting other costs.

He mostly stayed in Amdavad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Goa when he was wanted. He used to make WhatsApp calls to his contacts including his wife. Moreover, he used to keep a dongle, with his mobile. The police were unable to trace his location due to the same. As revealed in his diary, he sold liquor to many bootleggers across Saurashtra. The names of bootleggers Ramesh, Shabbir, Altaf (from Junagadh); Rafiq and Pintu (from Rajkot district), Bhara, Kanubhai and Raju (from Surendranagar), Iqbal, Janmamad (from Jamnagar), Jaylo, Bharat, Aslam, (from Mobi) were found from his diary. During the 2 years, he sold around 25 thousand boxes of liquor in Rajkot city, 17 thousand boxes in Junagadh city, 12 thousand boxes in Rajkot district, 10 thousand boxes in Surendranagar, 4 thousand boxes in Jamnagar and 942 boxes in Morbi. DeshGujarat