Hyderabad: IPS Officer Grilled Over Forgery, Grabbing Property of Ex-IAS Officer

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Central Crime Station (CCS) on Wednesday questioned Dr B. Naveen Kumar, the joint director of the RBVRR Telangana State Police Academy in a forgery and property grabbing case.

Kumar, a senior 2008 batch IPS officer, is accused of creating fake documents and forging signatures to grab a house at Prashasan Nagar of Jubilee Hills, which is owned by retired IAS officer Bhanwar Lal. Kumar’s associate, Orsu Sambasiva Rao, and his wife, O. Roopa Dimple, have already been arrested and placed in judicial remand.

Ashok Kumar, ACP of the Economic Offences Wing, CCS, questioned Kumar, collecting case details from him.

Naveen Kumar, after the questioning, told media persons that the allegations made against him were false. “I have appeared before the IO and given all the details they have asked. Facts will come out soon,” he said.

Although a case was registered on November 17, with Kumar named the second accused (A2) in the FIR, the arrests took place on December 23 and Kumar served a notice after a 40-day delay.

Bhanwar Lal’s wife Mani Lal, the complainant in the case, reportedly made rounds of police stations for action but the same was initiated only after she met Hyderabad police commissioner K. Sreenivasa Reddy and submitted her grievance, sources said.

As per the complaint, Bhanwar Lal leased his house to Sambasiva Rao in November 2014 for five years. After Lal retired in June 2019, he asked Rao to vacate the house, which he promised to do by December.

Meanwhile, Lal learned that Naveen Kumar, who introduced him to Rao, was also staying in the same house without prior information and not paying rent, due to which the occupants were asked to immediately vacate the premises.

But Rao did not vacate the house and stopped paying the rent as well, it was alleged.

In September 2020, Rao sent four post-dated cheques to Lal, one of which bounced. After much persuasion, Rao transferred the funds to Lal’s account, but the three other cheques also bounced, following which Lal approached the court over the cheque bounce.

Rao sent legal notices to Lal, claiming to have spent Rs 11.30 lakh besides having paid Rs 11 lakh in rent and further, giving Rs 38 lakh cash towards their house construction at Alwal, along with copies of the alleged fake agreement and payment receipts.

Mani Lal, in her complaint, said that Rao and Kumar subjected her husband to stress, resulting in ailments and immobility, necessitating hospital treatment. Despite this, they initiated legal proceedings using forged signatures and fabricated documents, she alleged.

Further investigation in the case is underway, said a senior official at the CCS.