Gandhinagar, 13 August, 2011

Gujarat cadre IPS officer Shri Rahul Sharma has been chargesheeted

Sharma was earlier served show-cause notice for committing gross misconduct by taking away vital CDs from the Case papers. It is alleged that Sharma didn’t give call detail CDs of 2002 to Investigation Officer or Supervisory officer and caused serious infirmity to the investigation.

Shri Rahul Sharma, I.P.S. (GJ-1992) was serving as Deputy Commissioner of Police (Control), Ahmedabad City during 24-3-2002 to 3-7-2002.Shri Rahul Sharma was not the Investigating Officer (IO) or the direct supervisory officer for the offences for which the Compact Disks were procured from Cell phone service providers.

Shri Rahul Sharma on receiving the said CDs did not include the same as Case property (Muddamal).

He neither handed over the same as case property (Muddamal) to the Supervisory Officer, Shri S.S. Chudasama, Assistant Commissioner of Police, (Crime) Ahmedabad city nor to the investigating officers Shri G. L. Khunti, Shri D.A. Rathod and Shri K. M. Vaghela respectively of Naroda Police Station CR No I 193/02.

He did not inform the court of jurisdiction about the procurement of CDs and unlawfully retained with him.

Hence, he caused damage to the investigation as the CDs collected from service providers of the Cell phone Companies could not become the part of the investigation.

Shri Rahul Sharma on transfer and at the time of relinquishing his charge as DCP (Control Room) Ahmedabad city did not hand over the aforesaid case property to his successor or investigating officer of this case and illegally carried the CDs with him.

Thus, Shri Rahul Sharma grossly violated the provisions of law, deliberately caused harm to the investigation of the said case by not depositing the CDs as case property.

Because of this gross misconduct Show cause Notice had been issued by the state government in January 2011 to explain his conduct. Now charge-sheet has been given to him for same reasons.

The Gujarat High Court had on Friday rejected Sharma’s petition against stonewalling of information by the state government he needed to answer a showcause notice served on him.

The High Court rejected the plea on the ground that it was out of its territorial jurisdiction.