A minimum of 50 police station heads in Bihar have both been suspended or despatched to police strains within the final three years for his or her alleged collusion with personal car drivers in amassing bribes from the state’s liquor and sand mafia, The Indian Specific has learnt. The explanation: a large paucity of official police drivers, which compels the Bihar police to interact personal automobiles.
Response to RTI utility by activist Shiv Prakash Rai confirmed that in opposition to 10,390 sanctioned driver posts of the constable and head constable ranges, solely 3,488 posts are stuffed. That is regardless of the Bihar Police having 9,465 automobiles.
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* In December final 12 months, Buxar Police despatched its City police station in-charge Sanjay Kumar Sinha to police strains after a viral video confirmed him allegedly extorting cash from automobiles. The purported video confirmed him in a non-public car employed by a non-public driver. It was alleged the police station in-charge colluded with personal drivers in extorting car homeowners.
* In April this 12 months, Muzaffarpur Police suspended seven policemen for his or her alleged collusion with the sand and liquor mafia. Function of personal car drivers can be being probed.
* In Bhagalpur, 27 police station in-charges have engaged personal automobiles with drivers, adopted by 24 by Vaishali police station in-charge, 19 by Buxar police station in-charge and 10 by Munger police station in-charge.
*Two deputy superintendents of police in East Champaran (Motihari) and one deputy SP in Darbhanga have been additionally utilizing personal automobiles and drivers, as have 4 circle-inspectors in Lakhisarai and one circle inspector in Bagaha and Bhagalpur.
Patna has 704 sanction posts for constable drivers and 166 head constable drivers. However the state capital has solely 252 constable drivers and 109 head constable drivers. A number of the massively under-staffed districts embody Araria (56 in opposition to 166 sanctioned posts), Sitamarhi (57 in opposition to 203 posts), Buxar (40 in opposition to 138 posts) and Munger (59 in opposition to 122 posts).
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In consequence, the Bihar Police has at the moment employed as many as 130 personal automobiles, The Indian Specific has learnt. In line with sources, in lots of circumstances the police verification of those personal drivers has not been performed.
In line with a senior police officer, filling up police driver posts “has seldom been a precedence”. “The district police usually have to rent personal automobiles with personal drivers, whose felony antecedents aren’t usually verified. That is the place there are probabilities of cops colluding with these drivers, who can work as assortment brokers,” the officer stated.
One other police officer stated that after prohibition was enforced in Bihar in 2016, police station in-charges have been below scanner. “Non-public drivers working with police stations are sometimes susceptible to corruption,” he stated.
When contacted, Extra Director Normal of Police (Headquarters) Kundan Krishnan advised The Indian Specific: “Recruitment for these posts (police drivers) are underway. Commercial shall be out shortly”.
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