PK Jha will be remembered for solving Swadhyay murder case
September 07, 2008
PK Jha will be remembered for solving Swadhyay Murder case
Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 7th September, 2008

Gujarat police CID I.G. PK Jha passed away on Sunday in Ahmedabad’s Sterling hospital after critical stage of illness. Jha was admitted in a hospital for last several days and his condition was continuously deteriorating.
BTech in Civil engineering, Jha was 1986 batch IPS officer from Gujarat cadre. He was born in Bihar in 1961. His most impressive moments in Police career was solving of Swadhyay Parivar case in Ahmedabad when he was city’s sector 1 Additional Commissioner of Police.
Pankaj Trivedi an NRI activist who had exposed irregularities and scandals of Swadhyay Parivar was brutally murdered in Ahmedabad by four assailants. Police was under Great pressure to solve this case.
Whole investigation was conducted under PK Jha’s leadership and case was successfully solved. Press conference on cracking of Pankaj Trivedi murder case was addressed by PK Jha. Ahmedabad almost all Crime reporters even today remember that crowded press conference and Jha’s clever handling.
PK Jha had lastly hit headlines in December-2007 when villagers near Ahmedabad had complained and agitated against disco party organized by him on his child’s birthday in his farm house at Bopal area. Then DGP of Gujarat police had ordered an inquiry in this matter. Jha was considered as an officer in government’s good book. Election commission had transferred him from an election area due to alleged proximity with BJP government.
Jha’s body was given Police honor at Ahmedabad’s Police stadium where entire senior most cadre of Gujarat Police including Gujarat Police chief PC Pande, Senior Police officer of Gujarat and Ex-DGP KR Kaushik were present. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s Commissioner IP Gautam was also present to pay homage.
You can Watch Pramod kumar Jha in this video clip
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