ACB may be forced to drop case against Daya Nayak

MUMBAI: With the director-general of police's office rejecting the Anti-Corruption Bureau's proposal for sanctioning prosecution against encounter specialist Daya Nayak in a disproportionate assets case, the ACB will now have no option but to classify the case as B Summary (false and malicious).

Questions are also being raised about ACB officials who made out the case against Nayak in 2006. The ACB had registered a case against Nayak alleging that he had made assets beyond his income. Nayak was arrested and spent 59 days in jail. His two friends, Palli Manivellan and Rajendra Phadte, were also arrested in the case. Even Nayak's wife came under the ACB's scanner. But the ACB failed to file the charge sheet against Nayak within the stipulated time and, despite that, sent the proposal to the director-general's office for sanction.

Former director-general S S Virk, who studied the file, found prima facie insufficient evidence. The ACB will now send a report to the Mumbai police commissioner saying it does not have any case against Nayak. Officials said Nayak could soon be reinstated.