HYDERABAD: Director-general of police V Dinesh Reddy has said that his wife has been an income tax assessee for the past several years and owns properties she bought from her own Stridhana funds.
In his counter-affidavit filed before the High Court recently in the Umesh Kumar case, he mentioned his family’s background and various other aspects of his life and career as follows.
Me and my family
My father V Veera Raghava Reddy belongs to an affluent and reputed family in Nellore district. Our family has the reputation of being noble, gracious and philanthropic. Our family is very rich and affluent having several properties. With the grace and consideration of the Lord, I am married to an individual from a family of equal status.
These facts are not being submitted for projecting me in a high degree but to place on record that I nor my wife have ever stooped down, craving for properties.
My wife and other family members have dealt with transactions in their own individual capacity out of their own personal funds and I have nothing to do with the same.
It is a settled law that when the family members are IT assessees, non-disclosure of the properties in the statement of the service personnel is not vitiated in any matter whatsoever.
The petitioner harassed suppliers
There is reliable information that the petitioner harassed a cartel of suppliers who have been doing business with the DGP’s office for the past 20 years.
As in-charge of DGP’s office stores, he denied them their business and brought in one Jitender Singh with whom he had shared the scam in purchases when he was in Greyhounds.
It is not out of place to mention that the petitioner was hand in glove with one store DSP by name D Jayanarayana and it is alleged that with the ill-gotten money, both this DSP and the petitioner purchased equal acreage of land in the names of wife and daughter at Kadthal village in Amangal mandal.
My service record
During my tenure as DG, Vigilance and Enforcement, I had taken up the enquiry of `5,000 crore scam of Emaar on my own, without any fear or favour.
In spite of heavy pressures from the people who matter and heavy inducements to the people who worked under me, I had submitted the report to the High Court.
I NEVER TOOK UP SMEAR CAMPAIGNS
I never had intention nor accustomed to take up smear campaigns against anybody. I am not even aware of how it can be pursued which may well be within the talent of the petitioner (Umesh Kumar).
I did not drag Umesh into litigation
The petitioner has alleged that I sponsored two public interest litigations against him to ruin and spoil his chances of becoming DGP. I submit that the allegations of sponsoring litigations against the petitioner and misusing/ subverting the judicial process and using the litigations to give adverse publicity against him in the media are wholly incorrect.