Lucknow: Thirteen Uttar Pradesh police officers are facing the heat in a case of alleged fake currency. The accused who was arrested in connection with the case has proved that the notes recovered from him were withdrawn from banks and were genuine. Now the police officials have to explain how they got hold of the fake notes.
Sanjeev Awasthi, who had filed several petitions in the court against the previous Mayawati government in the state, was arrested on February 2, 2011 from Kanpur's Collectorganj police station area with fake currency notes worth Rs 4.56 lakh.
A team of 13 police officials were involved in arrested Awasthi and Mayawati was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Awasthi had then alleged as he had filed petition in the mining and Taj Corridor cases, so the police had implicated him in a false case. Awasthi was one of the people who had filed a petition against the Mayawati government in the Taj Corridor case in 2011.
After he was released from the jail after six months, Awasthi moved the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court then directed the Akhilesh Yadav government, which assumed office after the 2012 polls, to investigate the fake currency case against Awasthi.
Awasthi then proved before the investigating team that he had withdrawn the money from the ICICI Bank in Lucknow. The mobile phone locations of the 13 police officials, too, showed that they were present at different locations.
According to Awasthi's lawyer Mohit Tripathi his client was arrested from the Lucknow airport and he has evidence to prove it. However, the police claimed that Awasthi was arrested from Kanpur, the lawyer alleged. He added that while police claimed that Awasthi was carrying fake currency notes, it has been proved that they were genuine.
Meanwhile, the investigation into the case has shown that 13 police officers including Collectorganj police station in-charge Dinesh Tripathi, the then IG Vijay Gupta, SSP Mohit Gupta, ASP Kush Har Saurabh and Deputy SP Sameer Saurabh could face probe.
All the police officials have been summoned to explain how and why they planted the fake notes and showed a different location of arrest. They investigation will also find out how the fake notes were sourced when the amount had been withdrawn from ICICI Bank.
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