J&K Cadre IPS Officer Suspended For ”Gross Misconduct, Misbehaviour”: Centre
Basant Rath was once got rid of as IGP visitors after a brawl with Srinagar Municipal Company’s exmayor
New Delhi:
Inspector Common of Jammu and Kashmir police Basant Rath, who has been within the information for being interested by a tussle with the union territory’s police leader Dilbagh Singh, has been suspended with “fast impact” for alleged “gross misconduct and misbehaviour”, officers mentioned on Wednesday.
Consistent with an order issued by way of the Union House Ministry on Tuesday night, Mr Rath, a 2000-batch IPS officer at the present posted to the House Guards division in Srinagar, has been requested to not go away the headquarters with out permission of the Director Common of Police.
The order mentioned that disciplinary complaints in opposition to Mr Rath were initiated in reference to “repeated circumstances of gross misconduct and misbehaviour” which have been delivered to the awareness of the federal government.
The order got here precisely two weeks after Mr Rath walked right into a police station in Jammu’s Gandhi Nagar locality to report a criticism fearing for his “existence, liberty and bald head” and named Mr Singh because the “explanation why” for such apprehensions.
Mr Rath made it transparent that he was once making the criticism as a “personal citizen” and in his “private capability”.
Promoted to Inspector Common rank in 2018, Mr Rath was once posted on the Site visitors division all through which he earned numerous fan following for main the pressure and disciplining visitors in his personal taste that incorporated working after offenders or even coming into into verbal duels in complete public glare.
The feud with the police leader started in June when Mr Rath’s respond to a tweet posted by way of a care for within the title of “dilbagh Singh” kicked up a hurricane on social media.
Mr Rath referred as “dilloo” to the Twitter care for which isn’t an professional care for of the police leader of the union territory.
This infuriated the police leader who posted his response in a personal Whatsapp team, with police body of workers, bureaucrats and newshounds as participants, through which he termed Mr Rath as a “joker and needless”.
Mr Rath was once got rid of as IGP visitors after a public brawl with former mayor of Srinagar Municipal Company Junaid Mattoo.
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