Look Who Came for the Police Meeting

The presence of the IG of Police at a conference in Thiruvananthapuram stunned many.

IG of Police Tomin J Thachankary’s presence at a regional conference of National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers held in Thiruvananthapuram recently stunned many. No technicality prevents him from participating in an NIA meeting, but the question is on what moral ground was he even invited to the meeting? Thachankary, under the scanner for suspected terror links being probed by the NIA itself in 2010, was suspended from service for travelling abroad without the government’s permission. The NIA also probed an allegation that he had met people with a ‘suspicious background’ in Qatar. He was taken back into service by the UDF government a few months ago and was posted at the police headquarters as IG for Civil Rights Protection. Such is life in India.

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