Guwahati: The Meghalaya director general of police (DGP) Lajja Ram Bishnoi has been accused of using a fake number plate on the multi-utility van that he had been using as his official vehicle.
The accusation has come from a suspended Meghalaya police officer.
GK Iangrai, who is a 2004 batch Meghalaya Police Service (MPS) officer, is currently under suspension in connection with the alleged misappropriation of funds and filed a police complaint against the DGP with the Sadar police station.
On Friday, the Deputy Chief Minister in-charge Home (Police) Prestone Tynsong said law will take its own case in regards to the complaint lodged against the incumbent Meghalaya DGP Lajja Ram Bishnoi for allegedly using a car with a fake number plate.
“We received the FIR yesterday afternoon relating to a fake number plate. So now a case has been registered and the investigation has just started. So please give space, let the investigation start and thereafter let the law take its own course,” Tynsong told reporters.
He further added, “The attention of the government has been drawn that’s what I am telling you we have already registered and the investigation has just started.”
langrai earlier reported that the DGP had been using a KIA Carnival Limousine with registration number, ML-02-A-0001, as his official vehicle.