Saji drug links: UT top cops' priority differs

CHANDIGARH: Even as the CBI officials began interrogation of Saji Mohan, IPS officer arrested with contraband, to finds his links with the region���s drug mafia, top brass of UT police seem to differ in their priority on extracting the details of drug racket in the region from the former Narcotics Control Bureau offical.
In his interaction with mediapersons, UT IG Shanti Kumar Jain has stated that they want to get to know from Saji, who was zonal director of NCB, Chandigarh, and allegedly had developed links with drug smugglers and peddlers of North India.DIG Mahabir Singh, however, is on a different track. ���Knowing about the drugs is not our concern, we want is to crack the embezzlement case and get to know the truth behind the report he had sent UT police naming six cops,��� said the DIG, who also heads the economic offence wing, and intelligence department of UT police.
He said the Mumbai police has already got the details from Mohan and there is no need to repeat the exercise. However, the Mumbai cops are yet to send the interrogation report despite several reminders by UT police. Meanwhile, a top officer of a security agency told TOI that it is vital for police to grill Mohan to get any information on the transit routes of major heroin supply in North India.
A team of CBI officials assigned to interrogate Saji Mohan, returned empty-handed on Thursday evening, when UT cops allegedly didn���t allow them to get tough with Saji. According to police sources, the CBI sleuths had just put two or three questions to Saji, who refused to answer any, when they lost their cool. It���s then that UT cops stepped and stopped them from quizzing Saji. Meanwhile, Balwinder Kumar was also brought before Saji in the presence of CBI officials.
To obtain the signatures of Narcotics Control Bureau���s former superintendent Balwinder Kumar, investigating agency produced him before a local court on Thursday. However, owing to a technical hitch, his signatures will now be taken before the magistrate on Friday. At present, Kumar is in two-day police remand in connection with an embezzlement case against controversial IPS officer Saji Mohan.