For the last two years, this Sector 37 resident has been trying to clear his name in a case registered at a time when he was in judicial custody in Burail’s Model Jail.

The city police also submitted a chargesheet in court, based on the FIR registered against Navdeep Gupta. Gupta used the Right to Information Act and procured documents to finally prove his innocence. The UT Senior Superintendent of Police SS Shrivastava, on Friday, sent a written warning against the policeman who had registered the false case against Gupta. On the instructions of a senior IAS officer, who conducted the inquiry, the police have been asked to initiate proceedings of perjury against Navdeep Gupta’s wife, Virpal Kaur, for filing charges of criminal intimidation when her husband was already in jail.

Navdeep, who runs a medical transcriptions business, had a dispute with his wife Virpal Kaur in 2006. Virpal lodged a criminal complaint against Navdeep and the police arrested him. He was produced in court on March 12, 2006, and remanded to judicial custody. On March 17, 2006, Navdeep got bail and was released from Burail jail. The moment he stepped out of the jail, he learnt he had already been booked in another case of criminal intimidation.

“I got the shock of my life. When I was in jail, my wife had slapped another case against me. She alleged I threatened her in the marketplace on March 15 and abused her in public. Even the city police, who had arrested me and lodged me in jail three days ago, conspired with her and lodged another criminal case against me. For over two years I have been repeatedly writing to various senior police officials,” Gupta said.

Though Navdeep was not arrested a second time, he had a tough time convincing the police that he was innocent.