Bilaspur. A double bench of the Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court on Wednesday quashed all three FIRs lodged by the then Congress government against former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer GP Singh. Singh’s advocate gave this information.
GP Singh’s advocate Himanshu Pandey said that the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government in the state had registered cases of disproportionate assets, treason and illegal extortion against Singh. The High Court has ordered to cancel the FIR registered in all three cases, considering it as part of malicious proceedings. Pandey said that after the case against Singh, he was given compulsory retirement.
He said that while hearing the case against Singh on Wednesday, the bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Aggarwal quashed all the three FIRs registered against him. The advocate said that the High Court has accepted that he (Singh) has been implicated in false cases to harass him. There is no concrete evidence against him in any case. He told that during the hearing, senior advocate Ramesh Garg from Chandigarh was present in virtual form.
Pandey said that in the case of disproportionate assets, the court found that the person from whom the gold was seized is an employee of the State Bank of India (SBI) and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has not even made him an accused, whereas the gold He was made an accused by claiming to be GP Singh. At the same time, the scooter from which the gold was seized is also not registered in the name of Singh.
On July 1, 2021, ACB and EOW had raided the government bungalow of 1994 batch IPS officer GP Singh in Raipur, apart from Rajnandgaon and 15 other places in Orissa. According to the ACB, several sensitive documents were allegedly found along with undisclosed assets worth Rs 10 crore in the raid.
He told that on January 11, 2022, GP Singh was arrested from Noida and the Union Home Ministry had given him compulsory retirement on July 21, 2023. However, in April this year, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) had directed to reinstate the officer. State Advocate General Prafulla Bharat has confirmed that the High Court has quashed three FIRs against GP Singh.