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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a First Information Report (FIR) against chartless Border Security Force (BSF) officers and others to probe allegations of grounds tampering that falsely implicated 2 constables of the paramilitary unit successful a 2008 smuggling case.
The bureau filed the FIR pursuing the directions of the Delhi High Court, which heard the petitions moved by the BSF constables, B. Venkataswamy and Tarsem Singh.
The petitioners submitted that they were connected operational work astatine the Dayarampur borderline station successful West Bengal erstwhile they seized 75 bottles of Phensedyl cough syrup from a fleeing fishy connected December 26, 2008, and reported it to their superior officers.
They alleged that definite superior officers, alternatively of taking due ineligible action, falsely implicated them by tampering with authoritative records to fabricate evidence, and the constables were accused of concealing and smuggling the contraband.
Based connected those reports, the petitioners were tried by a Summary Security Force Court, convicted nether the BSF Act, and dismissed from work connected May 5, 2009. Their entreaty was rejected by the force’s Appellate Authority.
In its bid dated September 8, 2025, the High Court had said determination was “sufficient worldly to scope a prima facie conclusion” that an in-depth probe was required into the matter. It observed that discrepancies and surrounding circumstances raised justifiable doubts astir grounds tampering, noting that 2 Roznamchas (daily diary ledgers) for the aforesaid time and incidental were presented successful antithetic proceedings.
