‘Include senior IPS officer’s name in FIR in land grab case’

Arappor Iyakkam makes representation to Home Secretary, DGP

Arappor Iyakkam has urged authorities, including the Home Secretary and the Director General of Police, to add a senior police officer’s name in a first information report (FIR) registered by the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) against police officials for kidnapping and torturing a businessman to appropriate his properties.

The CB-CID registered the FIR on 10 persons, including six police officials and an Assistant Commissioner in June. Demanding a fair investigation, Jayaram Venkatesan, convenor, Arappor Iyakkam, said the organisation accessed a copy of the complaint dated July 12 lodged by the victim, Rajesh,

“A simple reading of the letter sends shockwaves of how certain police officials, responsible for upholding law and order, have prima facie acted as henchmen of land grabbers by involving themselves in extreme acts of rowdyism. The complaint is about how Mr. Rajesh and his family were kidnapped, tortured and threatened several times by the police, and how his lands were grabbed and registered in the name of a few individuals in the year 2019,” he said.