Gurugram: City Court has issued an arrest warrant against IPS Dheeraj loyal officers in connection with the case of multi-crore theft.
The Haryana Police Special Task Force (STF), who investigated this case, has named Sethia as one of the defendants after he failed to respond to their notification and searched his residence last week.
He escaped now and has been suspended.
Cash amounted to several crores allegedly stolen from two flats owned by sector 84 developers of the housing community in August.
So far, STF estimates put a stolen amount around Rs 24 Crore.
When the branch of the Gurugram police crime was investigating this issue, Sethia posted in Gurugram as DCP (south) and held additional DCP fees (crime).
During the bureaucratic reshuffle a few weeks ago, he posted as Kurukshetra SP.
He returned with shunted to the recent Indian reserve battalion after his name was cut in the probe.
The additional session Jasbir Singh, hearing the application filed by STF on Saturday, issued an arrest warrant against Sethia and also issued direction to recapture US Vikas Gulia from Delhi Police Special Cells.
Gulia, who allegedly collected stolen money and shared it to the people involved in crime, was arrested by Gurugram police in October but was released with a guarantee.
Dig (STF) Satheesh Balan said, “We have moved the application before the court and the arrest warrant has been issued.” This case was handed over to STF on October 30 after alleged striking irregularities in the probe carried out by Gurugram police.
It caught two doctors who allegedly told a gangster about cash and helped plan and implement crime.
STF also recovered around Rs 3.9 Crore from their ownership.
In the disclosure statement, the doctors claimed they were paying Sethia RS 3.5 crore cash and gold bars as bribes.
Then, Sethia allegedly maintained Rs 20 lakh and returned the remaining money and gold.
After Sethia went to communicate, STF on December 8, added the name and part of the anti-corruption law and Section 411 (dishonestly accepting the stolen property) IPC to the FIF the theft that was registered at the Kherki Daula police station in August.
The state government suspended him on December 10.