Meghalaya
Meghalaya DGP Lajja Ram Bishnoi

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.

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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.

โ€œWe 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,โ€ Tynsong told reporters.

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He further added, โ€œThe attention of the government has been drawn thatโ€™s what I am telling you we have already registered and the investigation has just started.โ€

langrai earlier reported that the DGP had been using a KIA Carnival Limousine with registration number, ML-02-A-0001, as his official vehicle.