Gujarat: Inquiry finds cops selling liquor at police station

AHMEDABAD: Two days after empty liquor bottles were found from a canal near Kadi police station in Mehsana district, an inquiry conducted by the Gandhinagar SP Mayur Chavda confirmed that the liquor was sold off and personally used by the cops. A complaint under prohibition act has been registered against the cops on Saturday.
Gandhinagar range IG Mayanksinh Chavda ordered an inquiry headed by Gandhinagar SP. After conducting the probe SP found culpability of nine cops including Kadi PI OM Desai, two police sub-inspectors, four constables, one home guard and one Gujarat Rakshak Dal Jawan.
Now the investigation of the case will be conducted by Deputy SP MJ Solanki about the quantity which was sold and who was benifiting from the illegal liquor sale from the Kadi police station.
Sources in police said, “Kadi police inspector along with other cops sold liquor during lockdown which they had seized from last three years in different cases of prohibition. They might have consumed the liquor and when they knew that they might be exposed, they dumped the liquor bottles in a canal.”
Police will also probe the angle of destruction of evidence in various cases of prohibition. A team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has been deployed to fish out liquor bottles and as of now they have recovered around 150 empty bottles. Meanwhile, the accused PI is on run.