Haryana government on Friday suspended three Haryana Civil Service (HCS) officers and 10 Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSPs), a week after a government-appointed inquiry committee’s report found negligence on the part of 90 officials during the Jat-quota agitation in February.
The State government in a statement said the officers placed under suspension include Mr. Dharmender Singh (earlier stationed in Gohana), currently posted as Sub Divisional Magistrate Ferozepur Jhirka, Mr. Pankaj Kumar SDM, Jhajjar and Mr. Jagdeep Singh SDM, Hansi.
“During the period of suspension, their headquarters would be in the office of the chief secretary in services-I branch in Chandigarh and they would not leave the headquarters without obtaining prior permission of the chief secretary,” the statement said.
The DSPs who have been suspended include Mr. Sukhbir Singh, DSP, State Crime Bureau (SCB), (earlier posted as DSP, Rohtak at Kalanaur), Mr. Surender Singh, DSP, SCB, (earlier posted as DSP, Meham), Mr. Vijender Singh, DSP, Headquarters Rohtak and Mr. Pawan Kumar, DSP, Rohtak.
Other suspended officials are Mr. Jagat Singh, DSP, Beri, Mr. Sandeep Malik, DSP, CID, (earlier posted as DSP Hansi), Mr. Rajbir Singh, DSP Loharu and Mr. Vinod Kumar, ACP, Faridabad (earlier posted as DSP, Gohana) and Mr. Sunil Kumar, DSP, Sonipat and Mr. Satish Kumar, DSP Kharkhoda, (earlier posted as DSP, Ganaur).
On Tuesday, the Haryana government shunted out its Additional Chief Secretary (Home), P K Das, after the Prakash Singh Committee submitted its report to Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
Negligence of dutyThe inquiry committee in its report had pointed out that around 90 officers were found showing negligence of duty during the Jat quota agitation. The committee had examined the role of officers starting from the rank of Sub-Inspector to SP and Naib Tehsildar or duty Magistrate to the rank of Deputy Commissioner in the Jat stir-affected districts of Rohtak, Jhajjar, Jind, Hisar, Kaithal, Bhiwani, Sonepat and Panipat during the 71 days of investigation and then submitted its report.
The Haryana government constituted the committee on February 25 to inquire into the acts of omission and commission on part of the police and the civil administration officials during the Jat quota stir from February 7 to February 22 this year.
In February, the protests left the State paralysed for over 10 days during which at least 30 people were killed, over 200 injured and property worth hundreds of crores destroyed as the agitation turned violent.
