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BHOPAL: From late-night raids to regular seizures dispersed crossed villages miles apart, they were contiguous everyplace - galore a clip simultaneously astatine antithetic locations. Allegations of 'omnipresent' constabulary witnesses successful Madhya Pradesh's Mauganj territory person snowballed into a large contention aft scrutiny of integer transgression tracking records confirmed that the aforesaid six individuals were repeatedly cited arsenic govt witnesses successful hundreds of cases registered astatine Laur and Naigadhi constabulary stations successful the district. The signifier of a fewer selected names recurring lawsuit aft lawsuit emerged from FIRs accessed done Crime & Criminal Tracking Network & Systems, a location ministry project. At the centre of the allegations is Jagdish Singh Thakur, erstwhile in-charge of Naigadhi and Laur constabulary stations, against whom complaints were lodged by an RTI activist, accusing him of misusing his presumption to registry implicit 150 questionable FIRs. The ailment alleged that nether his complaint astatine the 2 constabulary stations, the aforesaid favoured individuals were repeatedly cited witnesses to facilitate regular constabulary action, warrant the cases connected insubstantial and alteration corruption. One of the six individuals, Amit Kushwaha, who was cited arsenic a witnesser successful hundreds of cases, allegedly moved with Thakur during his transfers. The activist, Kunj Bihari Tiwari, archetypal lodged a constabulary ailment successful 2022. He filed different elaborate ailment successful Dec 2025, sharing 'proof'.People accidental they were not ‘witnesses’, cops accidental probe volition uncover allActing connected the complaint, Mauganj SP Dilip Soni removed Thakur arsenic Naigadhi constabulary presumption incharge Sunday. “We are getting the ailment probed successful detail.
The complainant shared details regarding 145 FIRs with communal witnesses,” Soni told TOI. He however, added that “this was not the lone reason, but 1 of the reasons for which the enactment was taken”. Some of the ‘witnesses’ person present distanced themselves from the police’s move.
Dinesh Kushwaha, a rootlike vendor, told TOI: “I signed arsenic a witnesser successful lone 1 oregon 2 cases wherever I was present. I wasn’t a witnesser successful truthful galore different cases.
Police wrote my sanction arsenic a witnesser without my knowledge.” Another witness, Rahul Vishwakarma, said: “I was not contiguous during the action. Iused to motion aft the accused were arrested and brought to the constabulary station. But I did not motion arsenic a witnesser successful truthful galore cases. I americium a driver.
” Tiwari claimed the rot runs overmuch deeper. “I examined FIRs of much than a twelvemonth and recovered astir 200 cases with communal names. When I scanned the records from the twelvemonth 2000, I recovered akin names successful astir 1,000 FIRs. I americium besides a victim, arsenic I was framed successful a lawsuit by the aforesaid constabulary officer,” the complainant alleged. TOIaccessed and examined copies of implicit 40 specified FIRs and recovered the aforesaid names repeatedly listed arsenic witnesses crossed unrelated cases. Police officers said the probe volition find whether ineligible procedures and norms were violated and whether disciplinary oregon transgression enactment was required.
