Bihar: CID directs senior cops to trace, arrest rape accused DSP

PATNA: The CID (weaker section) has directed all the senior superintendents and superintendents of police in districts across the state to trace the suspended senior DSP Kamlakant Prasad and arrest him.
A letter has been issued by the ADG CID (weaker section) Anil Kishore Yadav to all SPs and SSP directing them to take necessary action and arrest the accused DSP. The Buxar SP has been directed to form a special team to conduct raids.
“The directive was issued on Tuesday evening,” a senior officer in the police headquarters said preferring anonymity.
Along with issuing directives to all the SPs and SSPs, the CID has also sought information about Prasad from the common people. The probe agency got an advertisement published in all major vernaculars dailies on Wednesday urging people to come forward and share if they have any information about the accused DSP against whom a proclamation notice has been issued by the court.
It may be mentioned here that the CID has got another FIR registered against the DSP with Gopalganj’s SC/ST police station for wrongfully restraining one Surendra Gor inside his office, voluntarily hurting him and making him sign on a blank paper. This FIR was registered on June 30 this year. The DSP, who is evading arrest in the rape case after his anticipatory bail petition was rejected by a special POCSO court in Gaya on July 5, was posted in Gopalganj in 2014.
The court would take up the matter again on September 4.
The FIR for raping the minor girl was registered with Women’s police station in Gaya on May 27 this year. The DSP was accused of raping the girl in his official quarter on Dussehra in 2017
CID sources said thet the DSP’s last location traced was in his native village Chandrapura under the Bramhapur police station area of Buxar district on August 12 after which a raid was conducted there.