Agartala, July 22 (Agency) The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), while exonerating the charges on former Tripura Director General of Police (DGP) K Nagraj, has directed the state government to regularise the pension and pay all dues to him as he was retired from the service five years ago. Nagraj has been facing trouble for one-and-a-half decades after the CBI initiated an inquiry against him in 2005 on the charges of possessing disproportionate assets. He was put on suspension in 2009 for 15 months following the chargesheet submitted by the CBI, and MHA initiated disciplinary proceedings against him. With the direction of the High Court, the previous left-front government had withdrawn the suspension and promoted him to DGP on an ad hoc basis in 2015, considering his success in counter-insurgency strategies and excellent performance in maintaining law and order as a junior rank officer in the past.
Meanwhile, the CBI Court in Hyderabad conducted a trial in the case, and in December 2017, Nagaraj was acquitted of the charges, but MHA didn’t drop the proceedings. Three months after the BJP-led government came to power in the state in June 2018, it cancelled the ad-hoc promotions and demoted him to the rank of Additional Director General of Police. However, the Tripura High Court, after a long hearing last year, set aside the order of Nagraj’s demotion, but it was not accepted by the state government on the ground that the MHA inquiry was not concluded. He was not given his pension benefits. Finally, with the consent of the UPSC, the MHA had recently dropped the charges, exonerated him, and asked the state government to provide him with all consequential benefits and consider the suspension period as ‘on duty tennure’, according to the MHA order issued by the Tripura government early this week.