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22nd March 1998

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Only connect

With six senior Po lice officers due to be elevated to the rank of Deputy Inspectors General, the talk is doing the rounds that some top level changes are in the offing.

This may see the emergence of new heads in the intelligence and investigation arms of the service.

But the billion dollar question is whether the Police Department will have a new boss in June, this year, when the present incumbent retires.

Though the man has earned the wrath of Government politicians and a sizeable segment of his own men (not to mention others), insiders say he may get an extended term. Even if people complain of bombs going off in sacred places, what matters, they say, is the right connection.

That seems the only qualification for living like kings. Who cares about justice and fairplay. That's only for the yakkos.


Part by part

Some Brigadiers are among those who will be on the mat over a nine million rupee deal involving the import of vehicle spares. Investigators have already unravelled several transactions. Some of the junior officers involved in them have been moved out.

Now the evidence is being sifted through to catch the big fish. They say it will be weeks and not months before they are taken to task.


Shylock's car

Who is the man in uniform who has locked up his official car in garage?

Insiders say he does not want to travel too much in the car and thus increase the mileage. The reason ? Well, he is entitled to purchase the car when he retires. So he prefers to have a car which is hardly used.

No wonder the man is very precise in what he does, like lending money. The interest should arrive on time. Otherwise, the borrowers have a visit. From whom ? Well, well… from the uniformed types. Who else ?


Tough job

The tax boys have got on the job. They want to find out how this young man, who served a private broadcaster as a monthly paid employee, is now building a luxury office complex south of the City. Designs have been prepared by a relative who is conducting supervisory checks.

They say the complex is worth several millions. That kind of money cannot be raised even if one is to put together the commuted pension and sell the official car after retirement. In other words no pauper can build one. So who is this lucky man who has made the cousin rich with not only a building but also a brand new Double Cab?

Those who do not know will sure fly into a rage when they hear this !!


Hi-tech. detectors

More high tech equipment will arrive soon. This time it is for the khakied gentry to detect explosives in vehicles.

Many of the units are marked for assignment in the checkpoints on roads leading to the east. This is particularly after the recent "blockade" of the east, due to become fully effective from March 27, was withdrawn indefinitely.

Even after this withdrawal, all goods passing through these checkpoints and heading towards the City are being unloaded and checked. Thereafter they are loaded again for the journey to the City.


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