By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
Months after recommending disciplinary action against Lokeshwar Singh, the Uttarakhand State Police Complaints Authority has recommended similar action against one more IPS officer.
This time at the centre of controversy is IPS officer Janmejaya Khanduri, who is currently on deputation to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
In its order issued this week by Justice (retd) N.S. Dhanik, the Authority held Khanduri, the then Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Dehradun and Narendra Gehlawat the then Station House Officer (SHO) of gross negligence in the looting and demolition of a house situated in the Clement Town area in Dehradun in January 2022. “This negligence caused irreparable financial, physical, mental, and social harm to the complainant, Kusum Kapoor, and also resulted in a violation of her human rights,” it said. A mandatory FIR was also not lodged, it said.
The Authority has recommended to the Home Department of the Government of Uttarakhand that disciplinary proceedings be initiated against both officers, and has further directed the Department to apprise the Authority of the action taken.
A copy of this order has also been forwarded to Deepam Seth, Director General of Police (DGP).
Kusum, the widow of Navy officer Vinod Kumar Kapoor had alleged that she had been residing in the Clement Town house for the past 25 years along with her unmarried and mentally challenged daughter, Tina.
She stated that in January 2022, while she was away in Noida (Uttar Pradesh) for medical treatment, a group of 30-to-40-armed miscreants broke into her house in her absence. Holding her domestic help and tenants captive, they looted her valuables and subsequently demolished the house using a JCB machine.
Kusum alleged that despite the incident being reported to the police, no action was taken.
This marks the second instance in which the Authority has recommended disciplinary action against an IPS officer. Prior to this, in December 2025, the Authority had directed that disciplinary proceedings be initiated against Lokeshwar Singh, a former IPS officer of the 2014 batch after finding him guilty of ‘stripping a complainant naked, assaulting him, and detaining him in his office for a considerable period’ while he was serving as the Superintendent of Police (SP) Pithoragarh district.
However, even before the Authority’s order was issued, Singh had already resigned from his job in October to assume a key position at the United Nations. Significantly, the government is yet to take any action against Singh.