LS committee summons Deoghar SP in Dubey case

Dumka/Ranchi: The privilege committee of the Lok Sabha has summoned Deoghar superintendent of police, Piyush Pandey, to appear in person before it on September 8, taking cognisance of the complaint filed by BJP’s Godda MP Nishikant Dubey.
On July 15, Dubey had submitted before the panel saying his privilege has been breached after the Jharkhand Police filed false FIRs against him and his family members to harass them as part of a “political vendetta”.
He added that such acts are creating a hindrance in his discharge of parliamentary duties in Godda.
At least three FIRs are currently filed against Dubey and his family members in different police stations of Deoghar district, falling in the Godda parliamentary constituency since in recent months.
On July 14, one Vishnu Kant Jha filed an FIR against Dubey and his wife for duping the state exchequer by illegally purchasing land in Deoghar. Recently, one more FIR was filed in the town police station challenging his educational qualifications and accusing Dubey of forging an MBA degree from the Delhi University. The ruling JMM had tweeted expressing doubts about Dubey’s qualifications.
Chief minister Hemant Soren via his counsel had also slapped a defamation notice against Dubey recently after the latter demanded the Maharashtra government and the Union home minister to reopen a case of rape filed against Soren in 2013 by a woman in Mumbai.
The complainant had withdrawn the case against Soren. Dubey demanded reopening of the case citing Supreme Court orders which prohibit anyone to take back complaints on heinous crime arbitrarily.
State BJP president Pratul Shahdeo accused the state police of acting at the behest of the ruling dispensation to harass opposition leaders in Jharkhand by filing false cases.
Citing the example of the educational qualification FIR against Dubey, he said, “It was probably the first such case in the country where police filed an FIR against an MP taking note of a tweet of a political party (JMM). The FIR doesn’t mention sufficient evidence against our MP, which clearly shows how the police are acting according to their political masters in this state. The way BJP leaders are being targeted and killed in Jharkhand is proof enough of vendetta.”
DIG (Dumka range) Sudarshan Pasad Mandal, however, denied the charges of slapping false FIRs against Dubey. He said, “The official concerned will place his stand before the Privilege Committee of the Lok Sabha as and when the time comes.”