Indian Express: Thiruvananthapuram: Tuesday, May 30, 2017.
State police
chief T P Senkumar on Monday decided to seek clarity from the government on the
prosecution measures initiated against him by Chief Secretary Nalini
Netto.Senkumar is expected to seek information on prosecution details via a
Right to Information (RTI) application.
Inside
sources say he will resort to further action, including legal recourse, only
after obtaining the response to his RTI query. On Saturday, the government had
recommended prosecution of Senkumar based on a complaint lodged by police
headquarters Additional IG V Gopalakrishnan.
Gopalakrishnan
had sought permission for prosecution proceedings in connection with an
incident in 2012. According to him, Senkumar, who was ADGP (South Zone) at that
time, verbally abused him during a visit to the Police Training College (PTC)
in Thiruvananthapuram.
Gopalakrishnan
was the PTC principal back then. He also alleged Senkumar had ‘mentally
tortured’ him by filing a confidential report against him while he was DySP of
State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) in 2006. In the report, Senkumar had said
Gopalakrishnan was ‘mentally unfit’ for the job. Senkumar, as IG, had
registered fake cases against him and publicised the confidential report to
belittle him, Gopalakrishnan said in his complaint.
Though
Gopalakrishnan had approached the previous governments seeking permission to
prosecute Senkumar, his pleas were rejected. However, the LDF Government gave
the nod as it was forced to reinstate Senkumar as the state police chief
following a Supreme Court order, 21 days ago.
Earlier, the
government had frozen the transfer orders issued by Senkumar. The state police
chief also had hinted the government was deliberately trying to downgrade him.
Senkumar’s service period is set to end on June 30.