Jat stir fallout: three HCS, 10 DSPs suspended

Panel had indicted 90 officers for “deliberate negligence” during agitation

Three Haryana Civil Service officers and 10 DSP rank officers were on Friday suspended, a week after the government-appointed Committee report found “deliberate negligence” on the part of 90 officials, including IAS and IPS officers, during the Jat quota agitation in February.

The three civil service officers who have been suspended are Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Jhajjar) Pankaj Setia, SDM (Hansi) Jagdeep Singh and SDM (Gohana) Dharmendra Singh (currently posted as SDM Ferozepur Jhirka), official sources said on Friday.

During the period of suspension, their headquarters would be in the office of Chief Secretary in Services-I Branch at Chandigarh. They would not leave the headquarters without obtaining prior permission of the Chief Secretary, they said.

The suspended police officers are Sukhbir Singh, DSP, State Crime Bureau (SCB), earlier posted as DSP, Rohtak at Kalanaur; Surender Singh, DSP, SCB, earlier posted as DSP, Meham; Vijender Singh, DSP, Headquarters Rohtak and Pawan Kumar, DSP, Rohtak.

Other suspended police officers are Jagat Singh, DSP, Beri, Sandeep Malik, DSP, CID, earlier posted as DSP Hansi; Rajbir Singh, DSP Loharu and Vinod Kumar, ACP, Faridabad, earlier posted as DSP, Gohana.

Sunil Kumar, DSP Sonipat, and Satish Kumar, DSP Kharkhoda, earlier posted as DSP, Ganaur, have also been suspended, the spokesman said.

Home secy shifted

On May 17, the Haryana government had shunted out its Additional Chief Secretary (Home), P. K .Das, barely days after the Prakash Singh Committee submitted its report to Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar. Mr. Das was replaced by senior IAS officer Ram Niwas.

Around 90 officers were indicted for “deliberate negligence” during the Jat quota agitation by the Committee and adverse comments were made against them in its report submitted to Chief Minister on May 13.

The Committee was appointed on February 25 to inquire into the alleged acts of omission and commission by officials during the agitation from February 7 to 22.

The Committee had inquired into 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 violence-affected districts of Rohtak, Jhajjar, Jind, Hisar, Kaithal, Bhiwani, Sonepat and Panipat.

Thirty people were killed in violence and there was extensive damage to properties during the stir. PTI

The Committee

had inquired

into the role of officers in eight districts