Pune dowry death case: Senior police officer who issued gun licences to Hagawanes, demoted and transferred
Jalinder Supekar, Special Inspector General of Police (Prisons), has been demoted and transferred to the Home Guards as deputy commandant. The state home department passed an order in this regard on Friday.
While working as additional commission with the Pune city police a few years before, he had issued the gun licences to the husband and brother-in-law of Vaishnavi Hagawane, who allegedly committed suicide due to harassment for dowry by her in-laws.
On Thursday, separate offences were lodged against Vaishnavi's husband Shashank and brother-in-law Sushil Hagawane at the Warje and Kothrud police stations in Pune city, for 'fraudulent representation' of their address by 'deceptive means' for taking gun licences.
Police said the duo were residing in the jurisdiction of Pune rural police, but obtained licences from Pune city police, by allegedly submitting documents showing them as residents of Warje and Kothrud.
It is learnt that Supekar is a relative of an accused in Vaishnavi Hagawane dowry death case. So
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said the state government will inquire into Supekar's role in issuing weapons licences to members of the Hagawane family.
'We have received complaints about it and have started enquiring into it. Some decisions (about Supekar) have been taken to ensure there is no influence or interference in the investigation of the death of Vaishnavi,' Fadnavis said after a book release function in the city.
When asked about the large number of weapons licences issued in Pune in the last two years, Fadnavis said the state government will look into this and cancel those that have been illegally issued.
Speaking about the arrest of Nilesh Chavan, who is accused of cruelty towards Vaishnavi Hagwane's 10-month-old son, from the Nepal border, the Chief Minister said Chavan was planning to escape to Nepal but was nabbed by police after getting proper intelligence inputs.
'I had been told that no one will be spared in the case. There will be no negligence tolerated and our efforts would be to ensure strict punishment to the accused,' he said.
Chavan had taken custody of Vaishnavi's 10-month-old child after the arrest of expelled NCP leader Rajendra Hagawane and his family and refused to give custody to the parents of Vaishnavi. However, he later escaped and the child's custody was given to Vaishnavi's parents.
Speaking about the Ladki Bahin scheme, the CM said the state government was implementing it and had found that few ineligible people took benefit of the scheme so they were being removed from the list of beneficiaries
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