Mumbai, Dec 05: Former city police commissioner R S Sharma is likely to face disciplinary action by the state government for failing to reply to the chargesheet served on him, home ministry sources said here today. The deadline for replying to the chargesheet expired today but meanwhile Sharma has demanded access to certain papers from the home ministry to enable him to reply to the charges framed against him, the sources said.
Acting on the SIT report submitted to Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on a Mumbai High Court directive, the state government had chargesheeted Sharma on November 25 for various reasons in the multi-crore stamp paper case and asked to reply it by December 04.
The state home ministry however has refused to give the papers demanded by Sharma and warned that he would have to face disciplinary action for failing to reply to the charges.
The government's refusal to his demand for papers and action taken against him would be communicated to Sharma soon, the sources said.
The chargesheet blamed Sharma for dereliction of duty and listed acts of his commission and omission as a result of which the probe into the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam suffered drawbacks.
Bureau Report