IPS officer DCP Chaitra Teresa John, who faced a departmental probe for raiding the office of Kerala’s ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist in Thiruvananthapuram, was given a clean chit on Tuesday.

Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Manoj Abraham, who inquired into the matter, in a report to DGP Loknath Behra, said Chaitra had functioned within the legal framework and not committed any error. The DCP had faced the inquiry after she searched the district office of CPM on January 24 in connection with a stone-throwing case at a police station, in which youth cadres of the Left party were allegedly involved.

With the raid, she had invited the wrath of chief minister Pinaryi Vijayan, who slammed the move in the state assembly. He accused Chaitra of “disrupting the smooth functioning of the party office”. Soon after, a departmental inquiry was ordered.