Cops clarify impediment in investigate against Gujarat University Vice-Chancellor
As per the provisions of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the charges of caste profiling are to be mandatorily probed within a period of 30 days. However, it took nearly four years for the city police to charge sheet Trivedi in connection with the complaint filed by a GLS Arts College faculty, Pankaj Shrimali, on May 3, 2008.
Filing of chargesheet against Gujarat University (GU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) after 1,370 days! But the police do not find it a delay, as an affidavit filed in the Gujarat high court tried to assert that no time was wasted to probe the charges of caste profiling against VC Parimal Trivedi.
As per the provisions of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the charges of caste profiling are to be mandatorily probed within a period of 30 days. However, it took nearly four years for the city police to charge sheet Trivedi in connection with the complaint filed by a GLS Arts College faculty, Pankaj Shrimali, on May 3, 2008.
Trivedi was arrested on February 21 and the SC/ST Cell filed a chargesheet against him on February 28 this year. However, the affidavit filed by an ACP of the Cell claims that the police never wasted time in this case.
As per the affidavit, after two-month probe, police filed A Summary in this case. The papers were lying with court for a year till July 2009, when it ultimately rejected the summary and asked to probe the case further.
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Cops took seven more months to come to a conclusion that the FIR was false, and in April 2010, B Summary was prepared. However, before the issue reached the court, the DCP decided to cancel the report and transferred the case to the SC/ST Cell.
Since September 2010, the Cell had been conducting the probe and the affidavit denotes the delay of nearly one and a half years to change of investigating officers. This affidavit was filed after justice J C Upadhayay issued show-cause notice on basis of application filed by the complainant.
Shrimali was not satisfied with the pace of the probe and intended to file a reply to the affidavit. Further hearing in this case is kept on April 26.
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