Honour for CBI official in PC case

NEW DELHI:Twenty eight CBI officials were awarded the President’s police medal for distinguished service and police medal for meritorious service on the occasion of Republic Day.
The list includes Deputy SP Ramaswamy Parthasarathy, who was part of the team that probed the corruption case against former finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti. People recalled Parthasarathy as one of the cops who had climbed the walls of Chidambaram’s bungalow in Jor Bagh last year to arrest him in the INX Media case.He has been awarded the President’s police medal for distinguished service.
Officials, however, explained that the medal is not conferred in probe in one case but the selection takes into account the overall service record and requires a tenure of 25 years to be eligible.
Joint Director D S Shukla, who headed a team that deported, Roshan Ansari, the first Indian national from UAE besides probing murder cases of Mumbai journalist J Dey and Bihar journalist Rajdev Ranjan, has been given the President’s police medal for distinguished service, officials said. Shuklaled team achieved conviction in murder case of J Dey in two years.
SP Binay Kumar of special crime unit, who is known to be a specialist in cracking homicide cases, has been awarded police medal for meritorious service. He had led the probe into infamous Khairlanji murders of 2006 in which four members of Scheduled Caste community were brutally killed over a land dispute by upper caste members in Maharashtra, officials said.
SP Nirbhay Kumar, who had probed infamous Nithari murders, PF scam in Ghaziabad, IRCTC case involving former railway minister Lalu Prasad, midday meal scam and murder of Delhi Police ACP Rajbir Singh, has been awarded the police medal for meritorious service.