Deccan Herald: Bengaluru: Friday,
May 13, 2016.
Vital
documents pertaining to the false caste certificate case of Kempaiah, adviser
to Home Minister G Parameshwara, have gone missing from the Directorate of
Civil Rights Enforcement (DCRE).
Even the
complaint copy, name of the complainant, note sheets on the enquiry conducted are
also missing from the file.
What is
remaining in the file is correspondence by the then head of the DCRE with a few
anthropologists.
A complaint
was with filed with the DCRE, stating that he submitted a false caste
certificate claiming to be a Kadu Kuruba (an ST community), whereas belongs to
Kuruba (backward) community.
Now, RTI
activist Dinesh Kallahalli has filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption
Bureau (ACB) against Kempaiah over the issue.
Kallahalli
claims that the DCRE had, in 1990, indicted Kempaiah for submitting a false
certificate.
Close on the heels
of this complaint, the DCRE received applications under the RTI Act, seeking
details about the case.
The
department had not been able to provide the information as there is no record
available. When contacted ADGP (DCRE) Sunil Agarwal confirmed to Deccan Herald
that the information sought under RTI was not available.
“I took
charge just four months ago. The file concerned does not have any record. The
then DIG of Civil Rights Cell B N P Albuquerque had written to anthropologists
to verify whether people of the caste claimed by Kempaiah are residing in a
particular region. We will soon give replies to the RTI application, stating
the information sought is not available,” he said.
When asked
whether he will order an enquiry on the missing of the records, Agarwal said he
would look into it.
The report
indicting Kempaiah was submitted to the Social Welfare department in 1990.
However, a
senior official said that it should have been referred to the deputy
commissioner concerned.
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