Chhattisgarh: The suspended IPS officer, GP Singh has been taken under custody by the state Economic Offence Wing on Tuesday. For six months, he was absconding, after he was booked for disproportionate assets and under sedition.
GP Singh was earlier Additional Director General (ADG) of the ACB and also served as Inspector General (IG), Raipur. He was posted as head of the police training academy before being suspended on July 5.
After his appeal to put a stay on investigation and arrest warrants against him before the High Court and later the Supreme court were rejected by the courts, he was hiding in Gurgaon, police sources said.
He was tracked by a team of officials who were having their keen eye on Delhi. He was traced by them on Tuesday.
According to a statement by the state EOW, Singh had been absent whenever called for investigation and was not cooperating with the agency. “Eow team has taken Singh into custody for further investigation. He is being brought to Raipur and will be presented before the court on Wednesday,” the statement read.
The ACB had carried out search operations at 15 locations linked to Singh from July 1 to 3. In these operations they had found, several irregularities and disproportionate assets. During the raid at Singh’s official residence in Raipur, some torn pieces of paper were recovered from the backyard. When these pieces were re-arranged, “serious and sensitive” information was found to be written and typed on it, the FIR read.
Singh is alleged to have carried out several benami transactions and acquired disproportionate assets across 15 locations in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
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