http://www.indianexpress.com/news/From-star-Dalit-student-to-controversial-cop/652281From star Dalit student to controversial cop
Syed Khalique Ahmed Posted online: Tue Jul 27 2010, 08:59 hrs
Ahmedabad : A Dalit boy from Mansa town in Gandhinagar district,
Narendra Kumar Amin cleared his MBBS at B J Medical College as a
gold-medallist, on the top of his batch. However, the 40-year-old has
come a long way since. Suspended and behind bars since February 22,
2008, the deputy superintendent of police who has sought to turn
approver in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case has had at best a chequered
career in the police force.
Amin is accused of involvement in disposal of the body of
Sohrabuddin's wife Kausar Bi.
However, it's not the first controversy that the doctor-turned-cop
finds himself in. Amin is believed to have fired a few rounds from his
service revolver in the 2004 encounter that killed alleged
Lashkar-e-Toiba operatives Ishrat Jahan and Javed Pillai. A
magisterial probe found that the encounter was fake, and the families
of the victims have been demanding that the incident be probed by the
CBI.
As part of the police team probing the murder of former minister of
state for Home Haren Pandya, Amin had gone to Hyderabad to arrest
Maulana Nasiruddin in October 2004. When Maulana's family members and
supporters protested, Amin had opened fire, killing a youth on the
spot.
Earlier, in April 2000, Amin had been booked for the custodial death
of Colonel (retd) Pratap Save of Umbergaon, who had been leading an
agitation against a private port being built by a multinational. A
magisterial court in Valsad had issued an arrest warrant against Amin
in the case.
Since his arrest in the Sohrabuddin case, Amin has claimed a threat to
him from fellow police officers and co-accused. On May 18, 2010, he
told the CBI court that there was a police-politician-criminal nexus
in the case.
During arguments before the court, he has demanded the arrest of
fellow police officer Geetha Johri, noting that she had been indicted
by the Supreme Court for not carrying out the probe properly. In fact,
it was during investigations by Johri that Amin was made an accused on
the basis of a statement by Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) driver Nathuba
Jadeja. Jadeja had told Johri during questioning that Amin was present
on the spot where Kausar Bi's body was burnt and disposed of.
Earlier, in July 2009, Amin had written to the Ahmedabad Police
Commissioner urging him to register a criminal complaint against Raj
Kumar Pandian, a suspended IPS official imprisoned in Sabarmati jail
in the Sohrabuddin case. Amin had alleged that Pandian had made a bid
on his life. The charge could not be proved. He had also accused then
IG (Prisons) Keshav Kumar of torturing him in jail.
In December 2008, Amin had submitted an affidavit to Principal
Additional Sessions Judge P B Desai, alleging that a plot was being
hatched to kill him in jail because he was privy to vital information
in the case, and claimed to possess CDs containing "explosive
information".
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