The state CID (Crime) has registered a fresh police case against additional director-general of police (ADGP) Kuldeep Sharma and other police officers for their alleged involvement in an encounter that took place 26 years ago.
Sharma has been accused of murder, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy in connection with the incident. The Rajkot zone of the CID has accused the senior IPS officer and others under IPC sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 302 (murder), 365 (kidnapping), 368 (wrongful confinement), and 506 (criminal intimidation), among others.
The case was registered in response to a petition filed at the DG office in February 2010 by one Jusab Juma Mokha of Kutch district. In his petition, Mokha had sought fresh investigation into a complaint filed in 1984, in which Sharma was held responsible for the death of two and disappearance of three members of Mokha’s family following a police encounter.
Sharma was the Kutch superintendent of police in 1984. The family members of the deceased had blamed the IPS officer for the encounter deaths.
An official press release issued by the office of the director general of police on Tuesday said that a special team of CID officers will be constituted to ensure justice to the victim’s family.
Sharma, a 1976-batch IPS officer, is posted as the managing director of Gujarat Sheep and Wool Development Corporation since November 2009. A retired IPS officer told DNA on the condition of anonymity that Sharma is probably the first IPS officer to be posted to such an unimportant post.
Mokha had mentioned in his complaint that Sharma had allegedly killed five members of his family, including his father, elder brother and uncles. He had also alleged that, after the killings, Sharma and others had filed false cases against him and other members of his family. Sharma, however, refused to comment on the case filed against him.
