After arrest of IAS’ husband, CISF officer offered her help
New Delhi, Oct. 11: Soon after planting drugs in the car of an IAS officer's husband, the accused CISF commandant tried to contact the bureaucrat with whom he had one-sided affection on the pretext of offering help, police sources said.
Ranjan Pratap Singh, posted as director of bureau of security (BOS) in the ministry of external affairs, and his friend Neeraj Chauhan were charged with criminal conspiracy and under provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
On Wednesday, a CISF officer received a call about a suspicious car parked inside the CGO complex here, following which he immediately alerted CISF security personnel to trace the car's owner. The vehicle was searched and 52 small pouches containing 550 gram charas were recovered.
Later, they found that the car's owner worked as a consultant with the ministry of information technology, police had said. The car owner, who was the husband of an IAS officer, was held by police and a case was registered against him under the NDPS.
The police sources said the accused contacted the woman officer after her husband was arrested and acted like he wanted to help her. However, during the course of investigation, it was revealed that Singh, along with Chauhan, tried to implicate the bureaucrat's husband.
During interrogation, the accused revealed that he procured the drug from his hometown Aligarh and was in a dilemma for five days whether he should implicate the IAS officer's husband.
Raids are being conducted in Aligarh to know the source of the drug procured by the accused, a senior police officer said.