Former city top cop Pandey had no criminal role in riot: SIT
11 April 2015 4:58 AM IST
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which was set up to probe the 2002 Gulberg Society riot case, told the trial court here on Thursday that former Ahmedabad city Police Commissioner P C Pandey had no criminal role in the incident. “Former Commissioner of Police in the city P C Pandey was not accused of any negligence. No criminality was shown by him nor attributed to him and therefore no departmental inquiry was conducted against Pandey,” SIT Special Public Prosecutor R C Kodekar told the court.
The Supreme Court-appointed SIT told trial court Judge P B Desai that no departmental inquiry was conducted against two other police officers including a former Joint Commissioner of Police M K Tandon and the then Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) S S Chudasama since they had retired by the year 2009 when SIT had recommended an inquiry against the police officers to Gujarat government.
“On July 2, 2009, SIT wrote a letter to the then Director General of Police (DGP) to conduct a
departmental inquiry against 18 Gujarat police officers including Tandon and Chudasama.
The Supreme Court-appointed SIT told trial court Judge P B Desai that no departmental inquiry was conducted against two other police officers including a former Joint Commissioner of Police M K Tandon and the then Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) S S Chudasama since they had retired by the year 2009 when SIT had recommended an inquiry against the police officers to Gujarat government.
“On July 2, 2009, SIT wrote a letter to the then Director General of Police (DGP) to conduct a
departmental inquiry against 18 Gujarat police officers including Tandon and Chudasama.
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