New Delhi: After seeing "no cooperation" from the Army and its allied units, the Jammu and Kashmir Police has moved a court for directing the defence authorities to help it in investigating the alleged pilferage of food and clothes meant for troops at the Siachen glacier.
The police approached the court in Leh and secured directions for Pathankot-based Regional Headquarters and Stores Depot (RHSD) to certify the places and the Army units where food packets of a particular batch number were sent, sources in the state home department said.
The police had to approach the court after the Commanding Officer of RHSD did not acknowledge several communications from the state authorities in this regard.
They said, after the court direction, some information had come which was not up to mark prompting the police to send another direction asking them to answer pin-pointed quarries of the state police.
"We are asking them about a particular batch number and they are giving us everything other than this information," a senior police official said from Jammu.
The ration was supplied to Leh-based 14 Corps by RHSD. The Army authorities, meanwhile, continued to avoid all summons issued by the police asking its officers to appear for questioning. Sources said summons were issued after three local shopkeepers, arrested in connection with the pilferage, recorded their "confessional statement" under Section 164 of criminal procedure code before a magistrate.
