Davidson Devasirvatham IPS who was the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Intel has been transferred from the Intelligence Department and has been posted as the ADGP Headquarters, Chennai.
Replacing him is KA Senthil Velan IPS who will be the state police intelligence chief holding the additional charge as ADGP Intel.
Davidson is alleged to have been involved in the fake passport scam racket. Over 200 passports are believed to have been issued from Madurai to ineligible persons during Davidson Devasirvatham’s stint as the city’s Police Commissioner. The whereabout of these persons who had acquired the passport through fraudulent means remain unknown and difficult to trace. It is to be noted that only the documents which they had submitted were fake and not the passport itself.
BJP Tamil Nadu President K. Annamalai had alleged that Davidson Devasirvatham has close links with Christian Missionary groups and is working with an agenda of promoting a particular religion in the southern part of the state. Even in the fake passport scam, Annamalai said that 74% of the fake passports issued were to Christian applicants. His wife who ran a passport agency allegedly closed down after the issue snowballed into a controversy. Annamalai also accused Davidson Devasirvatham of destroying evidence when he was the Madurai Police Commissioner.
It was during Davidson Devasirvatham’s stint as state police intelligence chief that the Coimbatore car blast terror incident occurred outside the Kottai Easwaran temple in which one Jamesha Mubin died. The riots and arson in Kallakurichi in the aftermath of a school girl’s death too happened during his period.
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