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CP Sawang cancels leave
In what appeared as a damage control exercise, the State government on Wednesday withdrew the Vijayawada Police Commissioner Gautam Sawang’s leave and allowed him to pursue the call money racket. The government had also dropped the proposal of deputing senior IPS officer, N V Surendra Babu, as in-charge commissioner for the city as announced by the DGP J V Ramudu on Tuesday.
Vijayawada: In what appeared as a damage control exercise, the State government on Wednesday withdrew the Vijayawada Police Commissioner Gautam Sawang’s leave and allowed him to pursue the call money racket.
The government had also dropped the proposal of deputing senior IPS officer, N V Surendra Babu, as in-charge commissioner for the city as announced by the DGP J V Ramudu on Tuesday.
The State government, which was facing criticism for the death of five persons in the spurious liquor case, was dealt with a hard blow with Sawang exposing the call money racket.
Meanwhile, the move to send him on leave had attracted severe criticism from the opposition parties, as they saw it as an attempt to save the ruling party leaders involved in the case.
It was Sawang, who unearthed the case following a complaint from a woman and the case landed government in trouble as ruling party leaders, including a couple of legislators and legislative council members were allegedly linked to the case.
However, Gautam Sawang said to media persons that he cancelled his leave due to the severity of the case. “I have applied for leave last month as our family members have planned to meet for the festival season in Australia,” he clarified. He added that he would continue to pursue the case and would not spare anyone.
“Our personnel conducted raids on 107 places in the city and took 75 persons into custody for questioning. We are looking into every aspect of money lending to find out if there is any criminal element in it,” he added.
Raids continued on Wednesday as the police took several money lenders into custody for questioning. They also seized documents, promissory notes and post dated cheques from their possession.
