ASI suspended in bootlegger escape case

TNN | Apr 27, 2020, 04:00 IST

Surat: An assistant sub-inspector of Palsana police station was suspended by a higher-up on Saturday for negligence which had helped a bootlegger to escape from custody two days ago. However, bootlegger Vinod Varma alias Vinyo Bhaiyo was nabbed by a team of Surat range IGP from Valsad on Friday.
ASI Sanjay Sharma was suspended by a top police officer of Surat rural police. "An inquiry will also be conducted how the bootlegger had escaped from the police station," said a police officer.
The bootlegger was in the custody of Sharma, who is writer of H M Gohil, police sub-inspector, Palsana police station. Sharma had gone out for dinner at around 9pm and did not find the accused when he returned at 11pm on Thursday.
Varma was in the office of Sharma since there is no lock-up in the police station and not handcuffed when the latter went for dinner. Varma, an accused in a 2016 bootlegging case, was remanded in police custody from April 22 to 25 by a local court.
Varma had fired multiple rounds at a team of state monitoring cell (SMC) that functions under director general of police in November 2018 during a raid in Navsari. Varma has multiple bootlegging cases registered against him across different police stations in south Gujarat.