Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 19: Additional Director General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, today termed the providing of security to the conman as a mistake and said that detailed investigation is being conducted and those involved in providing him security will not be spared.
Kiran Patel, the imposter hailing from Gujarat posed as an Additional Director (Strategy and Campaigns) in the Prime Minister’s Office and enjoyed many perks, including a bulletproof car and security cover besides other hospitality.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a football tournament at TRC here, Kumar said that a mistake in providing Patel security is being looked into and action will be taken against the officer who has given instructions.
“The SOP is there from the beginning. Instructions come from time to time. Police should not provide security to anyone on verbal instructions. We don’t. The mistake which has happened is being looked into and action will be taken against the officer who has given instructions,” he said.
He ruled out it as an intelligence failure. “We cannot call it intelligence failure. There has been negligence at the field officer level and action will be taken,” he said.
“There has been a proper FIR in this case. See, when Srinagar police got information on March 2, a team headed by a senior IPS officer arrested him red handed. Fake visiting cards were recovered,” Kumar said.
The ADG said that investigation is being conducted and help is being taken from Gujarat police.
“Rigorous interrogation was done. He remained under police custody for 14 days. He is presently in judicial remand. He is in jail completely. We are professionally carrying out investigation. We are taking help from Gujarat police and nobody will be spared”, he said.
The officer also said that crimes are not increasing but crime reporting is increasing.
Earlier, many crimes were concealed by family and society but it is good that the trust of people has increased on police and whenever there is any crime, people visit Police Stations and report the crime,” he said, adding, “Investigations then follow. We are focusing on social crimes and we book the culprit and through the judicial process we convict the culprit.”
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