GUWAHATI, June 8 ? The State Government?s bid to put a check on alleged ?extortion? by the police on roads by engaging mobile squads of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has not gone down well with police officials below the rank of district superintendent in the State although it is generally appreciated by different quarters. By and large the police officials below the rank of SP feel that junior officers will be made scapegoat in the entire exercise while no questions will be asked to SPs sans whose approval nothing moves in a police district let alone setting up of non-sanction check-gates like the one at Bagori on NH 37.
Sources in the Police Department informed that the police check-gate at Bagori where six policemen including a Sub-Divisional Police Officer were caught red-handed by the CID squad while illegally collecting money from vehicles plying on the NH 37 at a non-sanctioned gate. It is hardly understandable that half a dozen police officials were engaged in a non-sanctioned gate.
A senior district police official on condition of anonymity pointed out the why Srirampur and Buxirhat check-gates have been left untouched by the CID mobile squad so far despite the allegations that politicians and police alike show keen ?interests? in the affairs of these two gates. Sources informed that if politicians stop issuing ?demands? to district police all over the State, there would be no need of the mobile CID squad as such ?extortion? gates will then die natural deaths.