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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case towards suspended National Investigation Agency (NIA) Superintendent of Police Vishal Garg and Inspector Mohammed Rajib Khan for allegedly extorting cash from three Manipur residents on the specter of implicating them in a case registered towards banned terror outfits.
The case has been instituted on a grievance from the NIA, alleging that they extorted ₹10 lakh from one individual, ₹20 lakh from one other and ₹30 lakh from the third sufferer between May 2022 to August 2022, when Mr. Garg and Mr. Khan have been posted with the department workplace in Imphal.
According to the NIA, the company initially acquired info from sources that the accused officers have been amassing enormous quantities of cash from the residents of Manipur by threatening them to border them within the instances being probed by the company. Subsequently, an inner inquiry was launched.
The crew conducting the inquiry discovered that the NIA had registered a case on March 9, 2022, alleging that the members of terror outfits such because the Kangleipak Communist Party, the United Liberation Front, and the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, that are proscribed beneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, have been elevating funds in Manipur to fund their actions.
The case had been assigned to Inspector Tushar Bishat. Mr. Garg, who headed the department and was the case’s first supervisory officer, directed Mr. Khan to help the probe. It is alleged that as a part of the modus operandi, sure businessmen/professionals have been known as for examination, largely with none authorized discover. They have been instructed that they may very well be arraigned within the case.
Mr. Khan allegedly then supplied to get the problem settled in lieu of cash, negotiated the quantity and picked up them on Mr. Garg’s behalf, as alleged.
The Union Home Ministry had earlier suspended Mr. Garg based mostly on the interior inquiry findings. The official, who was a part of the crew that had probed the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, was earlier suspended together with two others in 2019 after being accused of getting threatened a businessman in a bid to extort ₹2 crore from him.
However, he was reinstated in 2020 as no proof was discovered towards him.
