Azamgarh: One Kamaluddin of Azamgarh’s Devapaar village was picked up by Madhya Pradesh police on 13 June 1996 but was untraceable thereafter. In this connection four police personnel were arrested and lodged in Azamgarh’s district jail. They filed their bail application but in view of the gravity of the case their applications were rejected by the civil court’s Additional Session Judge’s court No. 1, V.P. Kandpal on 6 January 2012. Earlier, after Kamaluddin was kidnapped / picked up by M.P. police, next day i.e. on 14 June 1996 his father Abdul Waheed in an application to Gorakhpur’s I.G. had complained that on 13 June 1996 morning some police personnel had come to his house in their car and forcibly picked up his elder son Kamaluddin and took him away. When asked who were they and why, these policemen did not tell him anything they did not reply but some local policemen who were also with them said that those were policemen from Indore.
Abdul Waheed also had stated in his letter to I.G. that earlier on 9 April 1996 also M.P. police had taken him (Kamaluddin) and his grand-mother away but subsequently had released them after taking a bribe and had not filed any case. Gorakhpur I.G. ordered Azamgarh S.P. on 19 June 1996 to file a case and start an enquiry into this case. Accordingly, Azamgarh’s police filed the case on 26 June ‘96. As the enquiry was going on, on 3 October ‘96 CBCID started its own enquiry. In its enquiry report which was completed on 13 December 1997 CBCID implicated five policemen. After that the case remained in the local civil court and legal proceedings were going on. Subsequently, four policemen surrendered themselves but the fifth policeman Arun Kumar did not surrender and absconded. Civil court’s Additional Session Judge V.P. Kandpal, after hearing the arguments of the accused policemen’s lawyers rejected their bail application on the ground that Kamaluddin was still missing and even after 15 years could not be traced.

MG News Desk