Police accused of delay in NIS attack probe

Police are yet to question businessman Omprakash ‘Buddy’ Shivraj and several of his workers who have been accused of threatening and physically assaulting a group of National Insurance Scheme (NIS) inspectors more than two weeks ago.

This newspaper was reliably informed that police visited the NIS sometime last week and took statements from the inspectors. A source, however, added that no attempt was made by the police to hold the businessman or his workers over the very serious allegations. The source added that the NIS is still to get back the records they had attempted to seize from the businessman, which allegedly incited the attack on the group.

Meanwhile, this newspaper was unable to