Cops Under Lens as Seized Drugs Go Missing From Police Station

Police in southwest Delhi's Kishangarh are probing a curious case — around three kilograms of narcotics they allegedly recovered and seized from the house of a murder victim earlier this month vanished from the police station, only to be found recently near a vacant plot in the area.

- Jignasa Sinha

NEW DELHI:

Under scanner are now the station house officer (SHO) and three police personnel against whom an inquiry has been initiated for allegedly tampering with evidence.

The SHO has been sent to district lines for the time being, while the other three policemen have been suspended from the station, officers said.

It all began on June 9 with the alleged murder of a Nepalese man, in his 30s, whose body was found in a street in Kishangarh. On the same day, a murder case was registered, and the probe was handed over to an inspector at the Kishangarh police station.

The probe led them to the victim's house at Kishangarh.