<div>Vital documents pertaining to the false caste certificate case of Kempaiah, adviser to Home Minister G Parameshwara, have gone missing from the Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement (DCRE).<br /><br />Even the complaint copy, name of the complainant, note sheets on the enquiry conducted are also missing from the file. <br /><br />What is remaining in the file is correspondence by the then head of the DCRE with a few anthropologists.<br /><br />A complaint was with filed with the DCRE, stating that he submitted a false caste certificate claiming to be a Kadu Kuruba (an ST community), whereas belongs to Kuruba (backward) community. <br /><br />Now, RTI activist Dinesh Kallahalli has filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) against Kempaiah over the issue. <br /><br />Kallahalli claims that the DCRE had, in 1990, indicted Kempaiah for submitting a false certificate. <br /><br />Close on the heels of this complaint, the DCRE received applications under the RTI Act, seeking details about the case. <br /><br />The department had not been able to provide the information as there is no record available. When contacted ADGP (DCRE) Sunil Agarwal confirmed to Deccan Herald that the information sought under RTI was not available.<br /><br />“I took charge just four months ago. The file concerned does not have any record. The then DIG of Civil Rights Cell B N P Albuquerque had written to anthropologists to verify whether people of the caste claimed by Kempaiah are residing in a particular region. We will soon give replies to the RTI application, stating the information sought is not available,” he said. <br /><br />When asked whether he will order an enquiry on the missing of the records, Agarwal said he would look into it. <br /><br />The report indicting Kempaiah was submitted to the Social Welfare department in 1990. <br />However, a senior official said that it should have been referred to the deputy commissioner concerned. <br /></div>
<div>Vital documents pertaining to the false caste certificate case of Kempaiah, adviser to Home Minister G Parameshwara, have gone missing from the Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement (DCRE).<br /><br />Even the complaint copy, name of the complainant, note sheets on the enquiry conducted are also missing from the file. <br /><br />What is remaining in the file is correspondence by the then head of the DCRE with a few anthropologists.<br /><br />A complaint was with filed with the DCRE, stating that he submitted a false caste certificate claiming to be a Kadu Kuruba (an ST community), whereas belongs to Kuruba (backward) community. <br /><br />Now, RTI activist Dinesh Kallahalli has filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) against Kempaiah over the issue. <br /><br />Kallahalli claims that the DCRE had, in 1990, indicted Kempaiah for submitting a false certificate. <br /><br />Close on the heels of this complaint, the DCRE received applications under the RTI Act, seeking details about the case. <br /><br />The department had not been able to provide the information as there is no record available. When contacted ADGP (DCRE) Sunil Agarwal confirmed to Deccan Herald that the information sought under RTI was not available.<br /><br />“I took charge just four months ago. The file concerned does not have any record. The then DIG of Civil Rights Cell B N P Albuquerque had written to anthropologists to verify whether people of the caste claimed by Kempaiah are residing in a particular region. We will soon give replies to the RTI application, stating the information sought is not available,” he said. <br /><br />When asked whether he will order an enquiry on the missing of the records, Agarwal said he would look into it. <br /><br />The report indicting Kempaiah was submitted to the Social Welfare department in 1990. <br />However, a senior official said that it should have been referred to the deputy commissioner concerned. <br /></div>