By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: The Noida policemen who came to Shaheen Bagh area in Jamia Nagar on October 16 without informing the local police and in a car with no number plate and tried to pick a youth were transferred on Monday.
While Station House Officer of Sector-58 Police Station (Noida) Ramsen Singh has been transferred to the Police Lines, Sub-Inspector Ajay Pal and Constables Kulwinder singh and Vijayveer have been transferred to the Economics Offence Wing of Varanasi. The Sector-58 Police Station confirmed to TwoCircles.net that the transfer has been made by the orders of the higher authorities.
The day after the incident, the Delhi Police had written a letter to the Noida Police to explain why it raided an area out of its jurisdiction without informing the local police.
It is learnt that senior police officers of Uttar Pradesh and also the state government took the matter seriously and decided to transfer the guilty officers.
Talking to TCN, Station House Officer of Jamia Nagar Police Station, Iqbal Ahmad, said that the action against the Noida policemen has been taken for their role in the Shaheen Bagh incident.
Asked whether the transfer is just to protect the guilty officers from further punishment, he said the transfer is just a preliminary action and the investigation is going on.
Several attempts to contact Noida SSP and SP to know about the progress in the investigation failed. The Noida police is yet to explain why its team went to Jamia Nagar in a private car with no registration number and what was the purpose of fake IDs of an IT company found in the car.
A team of Noida policemen in civil dress had entered the Shaheen Bagh area in the night of October 16 and tried to force a youth Aamir in their black Verna car carrying no registration number. As the youth began crying locals gathered. Seeing the car without number and the men in civil dress they doubted the purpose of the ‘abductors.’ They prevented the men, which the Delhi Police and Noida Police later confirmed were Noida policemen, from picking the youth. The locals were also able to catch a policeman while others fled the scene. The policeman caught by the public identified himself as Sub-Inspector of Noida Police. The man and the car were brought to Jamia Nagar Police Station. Hundreds of locals gathered at the station and demanded action against the guilty policemen. Many said their purpose was to kidnap the youth and later kill him in a fake encounter and declare him a terrorist.
The Noida Police, however, said the team was trailing the youth Aamir who was wanted in several criminal cases including snatching in Ghaziabad. But they didn’t explain why they came in civil dress and in a car with no registration number to nab a petty criminal.
Several PAN cards and ATM cards were found in the car. The PAN cards belong to Yogesh Pal Singh, Jitender Chopra and Paiti Singh (a woman). Besides, an ATM card of Axis Bank was in the name of Yogesh Pal Singh. Another ATM card of Punjab National Bank was in the name of Prakash Sikendra. The jurisdiction of all PAN cards is Delhi.
It is interesting that no PAN card, ATM card and three IDs of an IT company matches to the name of the policemen transferred. The Verna car is still lying in the premises of Jamia Nagar Police Station. None has so far come to claim it. There is much to be investigated in the case. Only a thorough probe will bring out the truth.