Yearlong tenure extension for Bathinda DSP raises eyebrows
A deputy superintendent of police has been given a year-long extension in his tenure through the Punjab govt, resulting in many eyebrows being raised within the police and political circles.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Bathinda, Gurjit Singh Romana, formally retired on Sunday (July 31). However a notification, issued on July 26, through the Punjab house ministry, said that Romana will proceed because the DSP of Bathinda until July 31, 2022. Sarcastically, the notification through the Punjab govt is going in opposition to the state’s personal coverage of now not giving provider extensions for its staff that was once carried out final 12 months.
Well known and standard some of the ranks of Punjab’s ruling Congress party, Romana had hit the headlines in 2017 after being indicted in departmental inquiries for liberating an accused in a drug case. He was once held to blame for his suspected function within the FIR lodged in opposition to one Gobind Gupta for allegedly having an unlawful inventory of one,500 habit-forming pills.
Even if the allegations in opposition to Romana have been discovered to be true in an inner document submitted, no motion was once taken in opposition to him. Despite the fact that Romana was once acquitted, and persevered serving within the pressure, a 2nd case was once lodged in opposition to the suspect within the drug case and the person re-arrested.
“It’s not conceivable for a DSP degree officer to persuade the house division to present him an extension in tenure, particularly when the state has no such coverage in position. Romana’s extension was once driven only through Cupboard minister Manpreet Singh Badal, who selected to seem previous the officer’s chequered historical past. On one facet the Punjab govt is giving jobs to the little kids of Congress MLAs, at the different, it’s selling officials with doubtful previous information through giving them undue extensions. Such officials will likely be utilized by the federal government within the upcoming Meeting elections through the ruling party in 2022.,” mentioned Aam Adami Party MLA from Talwandi Sabo, Baljinder Kaur.
She added, “If there’s a no extension coverage in position through the state, then how was once Romana solely requested to hold on for another 12 months? This govt has no benefit and works handiest in a fashion that fits itself.”
Gupta, who was once arrested on April 10, 2017, was once launched inside 10 days of accommodation the FIR at Bathinda’s Nehianwala police station after a courtroom granted him bail. Within the cancellation document, Romana had reportedly cited a drug inspector’s commentary claiming that the accused, Gupta, had the licence to promote and buy such medications. Resources later mentioned that no motion was once taken in opposition to Romana after the interior document later concluded that Gupta’s unlock was once a mistake at the a part of Romana and now not a planned try.
After the inquiry indicated him, Romana was once transferred to sixth IRB, Ladda Kothi, in Sangrur, for a while. Alternatively, he quickly returned because the DSP in Bathinda after the probe in opposition to him concluded.
Contacted, newly-appointed running president of Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee, Pawan Goyal, mentioned, “I am now not conscious about the info of the case. The Opposition is simply hurling baseless allegations. Leader Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, will glance into the subject and if there was once anything else mistaken in giving the DSP an extension.
Punjab Finance Minister, Manpreet Singh Badal, didn’t resolution repeated requires a remark at the tendencies.
