Senior IPS officer and previous director basic of Tihar Prisons Sandeep Goel has been suspended via the Union House Ministry for alleged dereliction of tasks, officers mentioned right here on Thursday.

Goel, a 1989-batch Indian Police Carrier (IPS) officer, used to be got rid of as the pinnacle of Delhi’s Tihar Prisons final month and hooked up to the Delhi Police headquarters.

He has been suspended via the house minister for “dereliction” of tasks all over his tenure as DG of Tihar, a ministry reliable mentioned.

No particular reason why has been cited within the suspension order.

Goel used to be got rid of from the submit after alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar made sensational claims that he had paid Rs 12.5 crore to the officer as “coverage cash” for his protection in Mandoli Prison, the place he’s lodged in reference to a Rs 200-crore cash laundering case.

Chandrasekhar additionally claimed in his letter to the lieutenant governor of Delhi that he had paid greater than Rs 50 crore to town’s ruling AAP for an “essential” submit within the celebration and any other Rs 10 crore to jailed minister Satyender Jain as “coverage cash”.

The claims had been made via him in a letter dated October 7.

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