"They (the Special
Investigation Team officers) were waiting for
my retirement to frame me"... R S Sharma
.. Retd. Police Commissioner (Mumbai)
June 28: FORMER
MUMBAI Police Commisioner R S Sharma, who was on
Wednesday discharged in the multi-crore fake paper
scam, has decided to take on the Special
Investigation team (SIT), which he claims was biased
in investigating the case and falsely implicated him.
Talking to HT at his Worli
residence on Thursday, Sharma said he would write to
the state government and the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) (which is now investigating the
case) to nail and pinpoint those who directly or
indirectly helped Telgi - and are still out.
Sharma said he would
contemplate legal action against SIT officials if the
gonernment or CBI failed to act against them "I
will consult my lawyers and examine all legal
options."
Telgi's sentencing on Thursday
was a victory for him
He alleged that officers from
the Maharashtra police and SIT like former Director
General O P Bali, Deputy Inspector General Subodh
Jaiswal and former Director General S S Puri
"padded lies against" him.
"I was the one to arrest
and demolish Telgi first and some others as well. But
the problem started when I wanted to to make Telgi's
wife Shahida an accused, which former inspector
general of police S M Mushrif did not want," he
said.
He said that in the part of
investigation which was conducted by him and his team
while he was Pune police commissioner, 25 people were
made accused. "Most of then have pleaded guilty
and not a single one has been discharged."
He said SIT official had from
the beginning (when the case was handed over to them
made up their mind to arrest him. "they were
waitring for my retirement to frame me," he
said, addig this happened because he superseded some
officers in becoming Mumbai's police commissioner.
(reproduced from Hindustran Times)