TN Top Cop Rejects ADGP's Claim of Attempt on Her Life

The report of the forensic experts has opined that evidence of short circuit was noticed in copper wires SHANKAR JIWAL, TN DGP

- Divya Chandrababu

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu director general of police (DGP) Shankar Jiwal on Monday rejected the complaint filed by senior IPS officer alleging that her office was gutted, putting her life in danger after she exposed a police recruitment scam last year.

ADGP and a member of the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB), Kalpana Nayak had written to the DGP Jiwal and Greater Chennai police commissioner A Arun last August for an investigation into the "foul play" and "sabotage" in the case of a fire breaking out in her Chennai office minutes before she entered it last July.

The DGP responded on Monday that a detailed probe by the Central Crime Branch and a forensic analysis have concluded that short circuit was the reason for the fire and that there was "no wilful act of arson ruling out any planned threat" to her life.

The TNUSRB also dismissed Nayak's allegations and clarified on Monday that her recommendations were followed in the recruitment.