Hyderabad, January 29: More trouble seems to be in store for senior IPS officer Tejdeep Kaur Menon, with the Crime Investigation Department (CID) categorically stating that it has prime facie evidence that she and her gunman did barge into the house of a couple, Harita and Kadeer, to thrash them.
The CID is awaiting a nod from the government to file a charge-sheet and initiate criminal action against the officer. Menon may move the Supreme Court to forestall any such action. A 1983 batch IPS officer, Menon is accused of trespassing into the house of the couple and threatening and beating them up back in 2002, allegedly at the behest of her friend Capt. Mamata.
Sources told Express that soon after the case was transferred from the Begumpet police station the CID some time in 2004, CID sleuths examined a few eye-witnesses including the gunman. “The gunman confessed that he beat up the couple upon the instructions of Tejdeep. But he later retracted his statement,” they said.
However, CID officials could establish Menon and her gunman’s presence in Harita’s house based on eye-witness accounts and circumstantial evidence.
“All charges have been established against her,” sources said.
Harita, a nurse, had been looking after Capt. Mamata’s ailing father, Krishnaiah and was allowed to stay in their home. This was not to Mamata’s liking. She once accused Harita of stealing certain documents and valuables. To secure their eviction, she allegedly turned to Menon, then an inspector-general in the Special Protection Force (SPF).
Though CID completed its investigation, Menon got a stay from the court, which was vacated recently. The National Human Rights Commission stepped in and directed the government to pay Rs 4 lakh to the couple as interim relief.
Menon, who is presently holidaying in Bangkok, is learnt to have consulted her lawyer in this matter. “Now that the stay has been vacated and NHRC has stepped in, the government may have to give permission for her prosecution,”
the official said, adding that her gunman would be arrested.
Menon has other troubles to attend to. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is awaiting a government nod to initiate criminal action against her in connection with a corruption case. This file has been pending with the government for two years.
–Agencies