The Union Home Ministry has suspended a Superintendent of Police rank official, Vishal Garg, working with the National Investigation Agency (NIA), pending an inquiry into the allegation of corruption in opposition to him. The official was a part of the staff that had probed the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case.
Confirming the event, a senior company official mentioned: “When it comes to corrupt practices, we have a zero tolerance approach.”
Mr. Garg from the Border Security Force, was later inducted into the NIA. He was earlier suspended together with two others in 2019 following the allegation that he had tried to extort ₹2 crore from a businessman on the menace that he would in any other case be implicated in a terror-funding case.
However, as no proof was discovered in opposition to him through the ensuing inquiry, he was reinstated in 2020. He was transferred from Lucknow to the Delhi headquarters of the NIA, and made in-charge of the “training” part.
