Two different investigating officers of the Thane police, probing the mysterious death of gangster Naresh Chaddi, have conflicting observations in their closure reports filed in a Kalyan court, prompting Chaddi’s kin to call it a mockery of justice. One officer filed a C-summary and the other an A-summary report. “The first investigating officer believes it was a case of accidental death and the new IO believes my brother was killed but the evidence is not traceable or the accused are not found. What a joke?” said Chaddi’s brother Raju Pahalajani.

The previous investigating officer, ACP Anil Powar of the Kalyan division, had filed a C-summary report, citing ‘accidental death’, in October 2020. A C-summary report is filed when the case is ‘neither true nor false’. Following a petition by Chaddi’s brother, the court had directed the Thane police to re-investigate the case in December 2020. ACP JD More of Dombivli division took over but filed the A-summary report — when an offence is made out but the evidence is untraceable or the accused are not found.