EOW Detains Suspended IPS Officer GP Singh in Disproportionate Assets Case

He is being brought to Raipur, Chhattisgarh, and will be produced before a court on Wednesday, 12 January.

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Officials of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Tuesday, 11 January, detained suspended Additional Director General (ADG) of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Gurjinder Pal Singh, from Gurugram, Haryana, in a disproportionate assets case.

The IPS officer is being brought to Raipur and will be produced before a court on Wednesday, 12 January.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau's statement to the media said that ADG GP Singh wasn't cooperating with the investigation.

"In EOW's case number 22/2021, accused suspended under the charges of Prevention of Corruption Act Sections 13b, 13(2) and IPC Sections 201, 467, 471, ADG Shri GP Singh, wasn't cooperating with the investigation of the case, nor coming to the EOW office."

Anti-Corruption Bureau.

"He wasn't given any relief by the Supreme Court as well. Today, on 11 January 2022, EOW's team took GP Singh into custody for inquiry from Gurgaon. He is being shifted to Raipur and will be produced before the court before taking further actions," the statement further read.

GP Singh, an IPS officer of the 1994 batch, was suspended in July 2021 after the ACB booked him over disproportionate assets. He was charged with corruption as well as sedition for allegedly possessing 'sensitive information' and 'inflammatory pieces of writing against the government'.

Singh had sought Chhattisgarh High Court's intervention on 26 November 2021 to protect him from arrest, which was denied by the court.

The ACB had carried out searches at 15 locations linked to Singh from 1-3 July 2021, and had recovered sensitive documents concerning moveable and immovable assets worth Rs 10 crore.

According to the FIR filed by the ACB in Raipur, Singh allegedly had a secret analysis of various public representatives as well as documents carrying religious comments meant to instigate communal violence and target the government.

Singh was formerly the ADG of the ACB. He was also the Inspector General (IG), Raipur. Before he was suspended on 5 July 2021, Singh was also the head of the police training academy.

(A previous version of this story had incorrectly stated that ADG GP Singh was arrested on Tuesday, 11 January. It has now been fixed to reflect that he was detained instead. The error is regretted.)