NEW DELHI: In a surprising u-turn in the case of Kargil war hero Mohammad Sanaullah, three people named as witnesses in the case have filed a case against Sub-Inspector Chandramal Das of the Assam Police border branch for preparing an allegedly forged report against a retired serviceman reported The Indian Express reported.
Mohammad Kuran Ali, Suwahan Ali and Ajmal Ali-all residents of Kalahikash village, where Sanuallah lived, alleged in the FIRs that Das, the officer who is investigating Sanaullah’s case, fabricated their statements and signatures to implicate Sanaullah, an honourary Captain of the Indian Army.
Additional SP, Kamrup, Sanjib Saikia, told The Indian Express, “An FIR has been registered at Boko police station based on the complaint by the three witnesses that the investigating officer (Das) did not take their witness (as he claimed in his report) and had forged their signatures.”
Kuran Ali, 65, told The Indian Express, “I have never met this police officer (Das). In 2008-09, I used to stay in Guwahati since I was employed with the Water Pollution Control Board from 1981 to 2014 – he could not have met me here. It’s completely false. He fabricated the witness of all three of us and hence we lodged the police complaint. We will go to court and say the same if need be. I know Sanaullah’s family, their house is around a kilometer away from mine.”
Sanaullah, 52, who retired as an honorary Lieutenant in the Army, was arrested soon after he was summoned by the Assam Police Border Organisation, or the Border Police, in Guwahati on Tuesday.
The arrest followed the order of a Foreigners’ Tribunal that adjudged him a non-citizen.
Sanaullah’s family said they hoped the High Court would hand them justice.
Before joining Border Police, Sanaullah served in the Army for 30 years and was designated as a Captain. He was also conferred a medal by President of India for his service.
As per reports, the case against the officer was going on since 2008.
Sanaullah, who is a resident of Kolohi village under Boko Police Station, completed his schooling from Champu Para Government High School.
His family has alleged that Sunaullah has fallen into a trap of ‘conspiracy’.
“This is a conspiracy hatched by some Border Police personnel. They submitted false information about him that he was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and also that he doesn’t know how to read and works as a labourer,” said Mohammad Azmal Haq, a retired Army officer and a relative of Sanaullah.
“Despite working for 30 years in the Army and six-seven months in Border Police, my husband has been declared as a foreigner. What should we do now? I don’t know anything. His name was not there in the NRC last year. My husband has been taken into custody now,” said Sanaullah’s wife Salima Begum.
With agency inputs