| Abhinav
Garg / TNN New Delhi:It's
been suspected by many, but confirmation
of the police falsely implicating people
by planting drugs on them has now come
from the policeman himself who has been
accused of planting drugs on two innocent
people.
Sub-Inspector
Ranbir Singh of the Narcotics Control
Bureau (NCB) admitted at the Delhi High
Court that testing kits for checking
banned drugs wereoften defective. What's
more officers often replaced the
recovered substance with lethal drugs in
order to implicate them. A shocked court
has summoned the NCB director to explain
the charge.
Ranbir is himself
tainted of this grave abuse of authority.
There is an FIR against him for falsely
implicating rwo persons under the harsh
Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances act. He claimed to have
recovered 100gm heroin from them which
later turned out to be harmless
paracetomal powder.
The officer is now
seeking to get the FIR quashed and in his
defence has claimed that he was not the
only one who framed people, several other
officers did the same.
The Judge has also
summoned the Kamala Market Narcotics Cell
in-charge
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from whose area
Singh allegedly picked up the two
persons. The
Director and the Cell in-charge will have
to explain before the court as to how
these two innocents were booked and
thrown into jail when two forensic
reports clearly stated that the substance
in question was paracetomol.
The case in which
Singh is involved took place in March
last year. Gyanender and Santosh were
arrested by him for alleged possesion of
heroin. The substance was sent for
testing to two CFCL labs-one in Rohini
and the other in Chandigarh- and both
labs reported back that the powder was'nt
heroin but just parecetomal.
After this came to
light, the additional sessions judge
hearing the case acquited the two men and
recommended that an FIR be lodged against
Singh as the two undertrials had to
languish in jail because of the wanton
abuse of authority.
The high court,
while hearing a petition filed by Singh
seeking quashing of FIR against him found
it intriguing that even when the
investigating team is equipped with
"field testing kit" to test the
contraband, they had mistaken paracetomal
powder for heroin. Upon which Singh
revealed that kits were often defective
ant that officers also changed the actual
recovered substance with banned
contraband.
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