Constable Amit Goyal is still suspended with pay, and the RCMP is not releasing any information on why his conduct hearings have been cancelled.
More than two years after he was suspended from the Osoyoos RCMP, Const. Amit Goyal is still collecting his salary and his hearing has been postponed indefinitely.
An RCMP spokesman confirmed Goyal is still suspended with pay, but could not provide information on when Goyal’s disciplinary hearing will be held or why two previously scheduled hearing dates were cancelled.
Goyal, who was suspended in June 2013, was originally scheduled to appear for a conduct hearing on July 28 in Vancouver, but days before the hearing, it was abruptly cancelled without explanation.
A new date was set for August 31, but that one too was cancelled abruptly without explanation.
Goyal’s suspension followed a series of incidents late in 2012 when two vehicles were reported stolen from his home on Cottonwood Drive a week apart. They were later recovered burned on Anarchist Mountain.
Former Osoyoos resident Steve Condon, a man with a criminal record that includes fraud, was fingered as the suspect and was investigated by Trail RCMP.
After Condon passed a lie detector test in May 2013, he told RCMP they should investigate Goyal’s role in the vehicle disappearances.
Although Trail RCMP recommended charges, no charges were ever laid and none of the allegations relating to Goyal has ever been proven in court.
Condon, who claims Goyal tried to frame him, has launched a lawsuit against Goyal and the RCMP.
