02 April,2009 07:55 AM IST | | Agencies
Suspended police officer Pradeep Sawant was reinstated into the force yesterday, five years after he was arrested in the fake stamp paper case, said Maharashtra Director General of Police S S Virk.
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Sawant had been suspended for his alleged involvement in the fake stamp paper scam masterminded by Abdul Karim Telgi. He was arrested in January 2004 for shielding Telgi, but wasu00a0 discharged in June 2007 for want of evidence. Sawant was a Deputy Commissioner of Police in Mumbai at the time of his arrest.
