Bhagalpur, July 20: Taken aback by a letter from Mohammad Salim, the former crime reader of transferred Bhagalpur superintendent of police (SP) M. Sunil Naik, accusing his boss of promoting sex trade, the district police might ask the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to find out the truth.

Senior police officers in Munger blamed the Karaili incident of July 2 on the “controversial elements” deployed as special police officers (SPOs) by Naik. Six villagers were killed in the Maoist attack in Karaili and 11 youths were abducted.

Naik, during his stay in the district, had alleged that his crime reader posted in the confidential section in his office was working as “an agent” of the Maoists and had been passing on important information to the rebels. Salim was arrested in October 2010 and was sent to jail.

Getting bail, Salim has sent a letter to the senior officers alleging that he was falsely implicated as he opposed the sex rackets promoted by Naik and some of the SPOs.

Salim mentioned in his letters that Naik had developed an illicit relationship with a woman of the area and provided some petty contracts to her husband.

“Naik’s wife, who used to stay outside Bihar, suddenly arrived in Munger and caught her husband with the woman. The situation reached its climax after altercations between the husband and the wife. Naik suspected me of disclosing his acts to his wife. Some SPOs also confronted me and pressed Naik to take action against me,” Salim wrote.

Anil Kishor Yadav, the deputy inspector-general (DIG) of Munger range, who also raised his fingers on Naik’s role to implicate Salim, has asked Munger SP P. Kannan to verify Salim’s allegations. He even asked Kannan to request the state police headquarters for handing over the case to CID if difficulties arrived during investigations. Observers in Munger said since Kannan and Naik were close friends and were in same batch of IPS, the DIG apprehended possible problems in a fair investigation by the present SP.

Yadav was not available for comments.

Salim’s family sources said he had enough evidence against Naik, who falsely implicated him in the case.

On why Salim did not show the evidence before his arrest, one of his family members said: “According to the police manual, a junior faces disciplinary action if he complains against a senior. That is why he did not complain.”