Drug smuggling: Supreme Court refuses to grant relief to dismissed AIG Rajjit Singh
Chandigarh: The Supreme Court has refused to grant any relief to sacked Punjab Police AIG Rajjit Singh, adding to the woes of former police officer. The dismissed police officer, through a special leave petition filed in the apex court, had sought transfer of the investigation of the case registered by the STF under the NDPS Act to the CBI or any other state probe agency outside Punjab.
Supreme Court Justice B.D. Nagarathna led bench dismissed the special leave petition while rejecting all the arguments of Rajjit Singh and asking him to approach the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The dismissed police officer, in his special leave petition, had sought quashing of four reports submitted by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by former DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyaya in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2018, terming them as “ex-parte”. It was on the basis of these reports that the Punjab government sacked Rajjit Singh and named him in the drug smuggling case.
The sacked police officer had sought summoning of records related to the police investigation, especially file notings, investigation reports, complete correspondence and other documents to the apex court.
The sacked Punjab Police officer has been playing hide and seek with the police after being named in a serious case like drug smuggling.