Hyderabad, April 11: The top brass of the Andhra Pradesh police department were in for a rude shock after the state government issued orders directing the Crime Investigation Department (CID) to re-investigate the case involving senior IPS officer Tejdeep Kaur Menon, accused of thrashing a couple over property disputes.
The order would force the CID to “investigate” a case they had already probed and found prima facie evidence against the IPS officer and even sought permission to initiate criminal action against her. This is the first time in the history of AP police that a case investigated by an agency would be re-investigated by the same agency. Menon is presently the additional DGP (Sports).
Sources revealed to Express that the formal orders asking the CID to re-investigate the case were issued recently. Following this, the CID is in a fix on how to proceed with the matter since they had already found sufficient evidence against Tejdeep Kaur and her gunman, who allegedly barged into the house of a couple – Harita and Kadeer – and thrashed them at the behest of Tejdeep’s close friend Captain Mamata in 2002.
“How can we investigate a case which we had already probed earlier? We don’t know what to do,” lamented an IPS officer. He said that the director general of police K Aravinda Rao is likely to take up the matter with the powers-that-be next week.
Sources said that the CID is now taking legal opinion on how to proceed with the case. “Never came across such a situation,” remarked a senior police officer.
It is learnt that the authorities were under tremendous pressure from certain quarters which led them to issue the direction to the state police.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had also ordered the government to pay Rs 4 lakh to Tejdeep’s victims as compensation. But this amount was paid from the police welfare fund which left many in the department red-faced as the money was meant for the welfare of the police.
And though the DGP had written a letter to chief secretary SV Prasad seeking the money be re-imbursed to the welfare fund and the compensation to be recovered from Tejdeep’s salary, the government has not responded so far.
–Agencies