02 April,2009 05:44 AM IST | | PTI
Suspended police officer Pradeep Sawant was today reinstated into the force, Maharashtra Director General of Police S S Virk said here, five years after he was arrested in the fake stamp paper case.
Sawant had been suspended for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam masterminded by Abdul Karim Telgi.
He was arrested in January 2004 for allegedly shielding Telgi, but subsequently discharged by a special court in Pune in June 2007 for want of evidence.
Sawant was a Deputy Commissioner of Police in Mumbai at the time of his arrest.
