IPS officer Pankaj Choudhary IPS officer Pankaj Choudhary

As the demand for there in statement of Uttar Pradesh IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal grows, another honest officer in Rajasthan has been shunted out for allegedly taking on the kin of an influential Congress leader in Jaisalmer.Jaisalmer Superintendent of Police Pankaj Choudhary has been transferred by the Ashok Gehlot government allegedly because he reopened the history-sheet against Gazi Fakir, father of Congress MLA Shaleh Mohammad and the disciple of Pakistan's Sufi leader late Peer Pagara.A complete shutdown was observed in main markets of Jaisalmer city on Sunday in protest against the transfer of the police officer.Gazi Fakir (80) is a very influential religious leader among Sindhi Muslims on both sides of the international border.Fakir's history-sheet, which was opened for the first time on July 31, 1965, mysteriously went missing in 1984. It was again reopened on July 31, 1990 by then SP Sudhir Pratap Singh who too was transferred after 28 days of taking the decision. It was again closed in May 2011 by additional SP Ganpat Lal who was then acting district police chief. But later the decision was revoked as it was not taken by an SP-level officer. Choudhary has been shifted to Kishangarh-based police training school in Ajmer as commandant.He was posted in Jaisalmer only four months ago and it was his first field-posting.Opposition BJP has accused the state government of victimising the officer. Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly Gulab Chand Kataria lashed out at the government's decision, saying the Gehlot government was in a habit of victimising honest officers.Meanwhile, the police on Saturday night registered a case against Shaleh Mohammad for obstructing a government official's work as he had indulged in a heated exchange with police officers when they acted against some people accused in a case. Mohammad said the incident took place some two months ago and the police had registered the case only on Saturday. "This was enough to prove malafide intention," he said.