Dimapur, June 12 (MExN): Questioning the ability of NPF-BJP government to “rise up to the occasion” to “clean the dirty stables” of the police department, the Congress Party in Nagaland today demanded CBI enquiry into all “irregularities that have flourished” in the department.
The recent revelations about MKR Pillai during the IT raids have once again exposed the corrupt activities that have flourished during the past 15 years of NPF led DAN government, the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Pradesh Committee (NPCC) alleged in a press note through its media cell.
The central government during the past decade had sanctioned hundreds of crores particularly for modernization of police force but was “found badly misused,” it maintained adding that “fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 18 crore by police department during financial year 2009-10 by producing fictitious bills as highlighted by CAG report being the most prominent.”
“It is an open secret,” the NPCC further alleged, “that Pillai has been running the show in the police department with many of the top police officials dancing to his tunes,” adding that this is plainly evident by the “timid reaction of the State DGP and the apprehension of a senior police officer that police department will be badly affected if Pillai is removed.”
The NPCC also pointed out that in recent times the Party has been demanding “removal of Consultants particularly in police and finance department where former officials with proximity to those in power have been lording over the state of affairs.”
The Income Tax authorities have done their job of unearthing the “huge business empire of MKR Pillai” that defies all logic of rapid growth and with the kind of attention being played out in the national media that portrays Nagaland in poor light,” it added.
In this connection, NPCC expressed serious concern on the “inability of the NPF-BJP government to rise up to the occasion” and demanded that the state government hand over the case to CBI to investigate all irregularities that have flourished in the police department.
This is an opportunity to clean the dirty stables of the police department and also expose the politicians and top officials who have allowed the system to become a one man show, it added.
