NEW DELHI: Three senior officers of Delhi Police are facing allegations of corruption. Deputy Commissioner of Police Satya Vir Singh Katara is accused of allegedly floating 17 shell companies in his wife’s name and amassing Rs 400 crore.
On October 4, Virender Bhati, director of Forsan Healthcare Pvt Ltd (owned by Katara’s wife and kin), again accused them of multiple fictitious transactions to an NGO run by a senior IPS officer who was with Delhi Police as a special commissioner. Bhati told the Income Tax Department that Forsan Healthcare Pvt Ltd transferred Rs 15 lakh between May 2012 and April 2014 to the NGO and to three Delhi Police staff and the former special commissioner.
On August 3, MP Udit Raj had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, and sent a copy of the letter to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik saying that Katara has accumulated assets worth Rs 400 crore under the umbrella of five firms—Corporate Solutions, Forsan Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Akaya Enterprises Pvt Ltd, Ishan Healthcare Pvt Ltd and Stuti Shiksha Swasth Sanstha.
In another case, a special commissioner’s personal staff are facing allegations of accepting Rs 15 lakh as bribe to intervene in a business deal worth `50 crore. The officer’s role is also being probed by the Intelligence Bureau. When the Ministry of Home Affairs sought a reply from Delhi Police regarding the allegations, it replied that it doesn’t have trained staff for officers.
In the third case, Special Commissioner of Delhi Police Rajesh Malik was named in an FIR by the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Anti-Corruption Unit last week along with his staff officer Ashok Choubey in a corruption case. Patnaik did not respond to queries.