Panaji, Dec Five : The probe into allegations of rape against Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal ought to be shifted from the Crime Branch which BJP representative Meenakshi Lekhi ought to be inactive, a petition submitted to the province governor aforesaid.
The petition was submitted Wed by a town professional and former head of the National Students Council of India (NSUI) Sunil Kawthankar. He had additionally filed a criticism against Lekhi at the Crime Branch for leaky the name of the journalist lady, who suspected Tarun Tejpal of sex offense, on Twitter.
The petition aforesaid that a key officer heading the Tejpal case has handled “quite a number of status cases” within the past, however claims that the majority of the cases failed to finish in conviction.
Kawthankar more claimed that the officer was a part of the Crime Branch unit that has been indicted by a House Committee report on medicine for not doing enough to nip the drug mafia in province within the bud.
“Such a political candidate can’t be relied upon sensitive case because it is feared that the victim might get a deal at her hands,” consistent with the petition.
The explosive House Committee report that was tabled within the state assembly exposes a nexus between police, politicians and therefore the drug mafia in province.
It has aforesaid that the many Crime Branch officers who were entrusted with searching key cases associated with narcotics trade were hand-in gloves with drug dealers.
The petition additionally wanted action beneath section 228(A) of the Indian legal code (IPC)against Lekhi for being insensitive to the feelings of the lady journalist and aforesaid that a criticism filed by him against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader had not been taken cognizance of by the Crime Branch.
“Lekhi could be a senior BJP Leader and therefore the regime that is dominated by BJP can try and defend her by all means that. I, thereby, request you to intervene during this matter associate degreed order her arrest in and of itself an act should be addressed control so as to function a deterrent and to guard the respect and sentiments of Indian ladies,” the petitioner has aforesaid.