Former Union Home Secretary R K Singh, who recently joined the BJP, alleged on Monday that Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde had interfered in the probe into the betting scam in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and prevented the Delhi Police from questioning a businessman with a “shady” reputation.
Singh used the shoulder of former Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar to fire a salvo at Shinde, claiming that “slips used to reach the Delhi Police chief quite often asking about posting some people as Station House Officers” or SHOs.
“These were not a few postings but in large number of police stations,” he told the channels. “I don’t know whether money used to exchange hands, but the Delhi Police Commissioner told me that numerous slips came from his residence. You don’t make a large number of recommendations,” he said.
Published 13 January 2014, 19:29 IST