Nine Thane Police Officers Suspended for Escort Duty Failures

Nine Thane Police Officers Suspended in Thane city of Maharashtra for alleged negligence of duty while escorting seven undertrial prisoners for a medical examination, a senior police officer said in a statement.

A probe found several irregularities when the seven undertrials were taken to Kalwa civic hospital on August 4, based on which Pawan Bansode, Deputy Commissioner issued the suspension order, citing the team's failure to properly supervise the prisoners,



which raised suspicions of misconduct, the police official said on Friday.

"A check at the hospital revealed that only five of the seven prisoners were accounted for. One of the prisoners was also left without handcuffs, and a team member was observed talking on his mobile phone instead of attending to his duties. The police team then allegedly misled superiors on the whereabouts of the two missing prisoners identified as Karan Dabhalia and Rajesh Pambar," he said.