Four years after it filed a disproportionate assets case against encounter specialist Daya Nayak, the police on Friday moved the court classifying it as a ?B? summary (false and malicious) case.
A ?B? summary report is filed when the police fail to make any development in a case. The police maintained that there was no evidence to prosecute Nayak.
The anti-corruption bureau had filed the case against Nayak, wife Komal and two others on a complaint from former journalist Ketan Tirodkar.
The case was that Nayak had acquired ?benami? properties to the tune of Rs 60 lakh. His two friends? Palli Manivellan and Rajendra Phadte?were also arrested in the case. Nayak, who led over 80 encounters, was arrested in February 2006 and released on bail after two months. He was later suspended from service. In November 2007, the ACB sought sanction to prosecute Nayak. ?The sanction, which is a must in the case, was not granted by the DGP. We moved the court today seeking closure of case,? said additional commissioner Niket Kaushik of the ACB.
Nayak had earlier faced charges under the stringent provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act for allegedly accepting money from underworld gangster Chhota Shakeel to transfer police officers. However, the Supreme Court had granted him reprieve, observing that his underworld links could not be established.