Chandigarh Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday directed leader secretary Vijay Kumar Janjua to test whether or not the earlier sanction turned into taken via way of means of the Vigilance Bureau (VB) from the kingdom authorities earlier than reserving IAS officer Neelima and different officers for permitting the bifurcation of an commercial plot and publish his file inside 24 hours.
Mann gave the route to the leader secretary after greater than 50 IAS officials along side workplace bearers of the Punjab IAS Officers Association met him at his workplace withinside the civil secretariat to sign up their protest towards the registration of the FIR towards Neelima, a 2008 batch IAS officer, and others with out following due method.
The IAS informed the CM that the necessary earlier approval turned into now no longer taken via way of means of the VB from the equipped authority below Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Meanwhile, the Punjab Civil Service (PCS) officials, who went on mass informal depart from Monday onwards towards the arrest of a colleague, additionally met the CM one by one however refused to name off their protest until the kingdom authorities meets all their needs.
The leader minister, at the same time as asking Janjua to examine the facts, stated that if the considered necessary permission turned into now no longer taken, then on the spot consequential movement warranted below the regulation can be ensured. The leader secretary has been requested to name for the applicable workplace report of the vigilance bureau in which the choice to sign up the FIR turned into taken or accredited and publish an movement taken file via way of means of Tuesday.
He has additionally been requested to problem appropriate instructions to VB now no longer to violate the provisions, as mandated below the regulation, withinside the future. “A well-described Standard Operation Procedure will also be issued forthwith,” study the leader minister’s note.
The VB had registered the FIR towards former minister Sunder Sham Arora, Neelima, and 10 different authorities officers on Thursday below Sections 13(1) (a), 13(1) (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and 409, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of the IPC on the VB police station in Mohali. The IAS officials sought on the spot withdrawal of the case towards Neelima and movement towards the vigilance officials who omitted the procedural requirements. They additionally raised the problem of the “inhuman manner” of the arrest of SP Singh, an legitimate named withinside the case, at his father’s cremation.
Before their assembly with the leader minister, the IAS officials additionally met the leader secretary. The assembly held in a surcharged ecosystem noticed Neelima husband, who’s additionally an IAS officer, threaten to stop the carrier if the existing state of affairs continued. “Some different officials additionally supplied to comply with suit, announcing that if matters have come to this kind of pass, they too will installed their papers,” stated an officer at the situation of anonymity.
At least girls officials additionally were given emotional and began out sobbing at some stage in the assembly. A few IAS officials additionally informed the CS approximately the unsure paintings situations withinside the kingdom.
PCS officials harden their stance
The PCS Officers Association participants additionally met Mann one by one to press their needs for the discharge of Ludhiana Regional Transport Authority (RTA) legitimate Narinder Singh Dhaliwal from custody, registration of FIR towards the vigilance officers who “framed” PCS officer Tarsem Chand and a concrete preferred running method for topics of inquiries and registration of cases.
They have been now no longer glad with the final results of the assembly and determined to stay on “mass depart”. Association president Rajat Oberoi stated that 235 PCS officials throughout the kingdom had long past on mass informal depart on Monday. Dhaliwal turned into arrested on Friday via way of means of the VB for allegedly taking bribes from transporters for sparing them from challans.
