Suspended Addl DGP Quaiser Khalid skips ACB summons
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: Former additional director general of police Quaiser Khalid, who was suspended over his alleged involvement in the May 13, 2024 Ghatkopar hoarding collapse case, failed to appear before the Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday. Suspended Addl DGP Quaiser Khalid skips ACB summons “We had summoned the suspended IPS officer, but he has sought more time to appear before us,” an ACB official told Hindustan Times. In his four-page hand-written complaint, the Saki Naka based scrap dealer claimed he was introduced to Khalid in February 2022, when the IPS officer was commissioner of Government Railway Police in Mumbai. After initial meetings, when the complainant told Khalid that we was into the hoarding business as well, the officer promised to award him the contract to erect hoardings near Tilak Bridge in Dadar and in the railway police colony in Pant Nagar in Ghatkopar East. “In December, the IPS officer promised the scrap dealer that the contract for hoardings would be awarded after the assembly polls and acknowledged that he had received ₹37 lakh from him,” a police officer told HT.
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