The Kerala Home Secretary
on Wednesday gave a clean chit to Kerala Police and DGP Loknath Behra, days after the CAG report said some rifles and cartridges were missing from the SAPB battalion here and there were irregularities in purchasing material for the department.
Additional Chief Secretary in-charge of Home, Vishwas Mehta, who was asked by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to file a report, gave a clean chit to the police force, saying it was not right to say there was a shortage of live cartridges and INSAS rifles as mentioned in the CAG report.
The CAG had found shortage of 5.56-mm INSAS rifles and 12,061 live cartridges in the Special Armed Police Battalion and had come down on the state police chief for purchasing bullet-proof vehicles for VVIP security, violating guidelines.
The Home secretary, in his report, pointed out that the Crime Branch had on February 17 done a public count of the rifles to demonstrate that none had gone missing.
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