Former Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar and former Assistant Police Commissioner Vinod Pandey have been booked in a case of more than 20 years old, including allegations of tampering and criminal intimidation. The case is related to an incident in 2001, when Kumar was working as Joint Director in CBI and Inspector in Pandey Central Agency. The case revolves around the claims that the documents were tampered with during the investigation. The case came after the Supreme Court upheld the Delhi High Court order to register two FIRs against the former Delhi Police officials on 10 September.
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This intervention of the Supreme Court came after the accused rejected the four appeals filed by the accused, challenging the 2006 orders of the Delhi High Court, directing the FIR to register and take criminal contempt action. The court called it a ridicule of justice that serious allegations were not investigated for more than two decades. Following the Supreme Court’s decision, the Delhi Crime Branch lodged an FIR against Neeraj Kumar and Pandey. These allegations include allegations of alleged tampering, misuse and threatening of evidence during the CBI investigation on businessman Vijay Kumar Aggarwal and his associates.
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Vijay Aggarwal’s accountant Sheesh Ram Saini alleges that during a raid on his Narayana office in 1999-2000, Pandey and others seized the company’s records without any legal document. He claims that the authorities later misappropriated dates in seized memorandum, changed dates and rigged in government records, causing Saini to signed fake papers under pressure. Allegations have been made under sections 166, 218, 463, 465, 469 and 120B of IPC, including misuse of government posts, rigging in records, forgery and criminal conspiracies.