DGP suspends two Ahmedabad PIs

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat DGP Shivanand Jha on Monday suspended two police inspectors in Ahmedabad city, after liquor seizures were made in their jurisdictions.
"Sola High Court Police inspector P B Chauhan and Satellite police inspector M B Jhala have been suspended with immediate effect," the order issued by the Gujarat DGP states.
This order was been passed following a raid on a liquor den at a bungalow at Ognaj, which is under the jurisdiction of Sola High Court police station.State monitoring cell officials recovered 581 bottles valued at Rs 1.72 lakh from the bungalow.In April, the state monitoring cell had raided a house near Shymal Crossroads, in the jurisdiction of Satellite police station, and seized liquor and other articles worth Rs 27.57 lakh. As the Satellite PI failed to nab the accused, Kuntal Nikhil Bhatt, a resident of Khadia, she was suspended. Interestingly, Bhatt has been named as an accused in both the cases where liquor dens were busted by the same state monitoring cell PSI, B J Purabia.