In accordance with the instructions of CM Sarbananda Sonowal, action taken to transfer the police: CMO
Guwahati:
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday ordered the state interior ministry to take immediate disciplinary action and transfer ten police officers to party on a cruise ship in violation of the interlock and curfew, said the office of the chief minister.
A local vernacular had published a report on July 6 with photographs of a group of officials partying on a cruise ship on the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati against lock-in and curfew standards.
“In accordance with instructions from Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, the Interior Ministry has initiated disciplinary measures for the transfer of police officers who participated in an evening night during a cruise on the Brahmaputra river, thereby violating lock-in standards and curfew in the city “, according to a statement by the CMO.
The department has taken steps to transfer a police deputy commissioner (DCP), four police deputy commissioners (PCA), two officers responsible for police stations, two sub-inspectors and a The city’s assistant police sub-inspector, who attended the party, added the statement.
Assam chief secretary Kumar Sanjay Krishna in a letter to police commissioner Guwahati instructed him to investigate the matter, submit a report and initiate disciplinary proceedings with notice to the secretary in chief.
“It is also ordered that the police under your command be required to scrupulously follow government orders and not to display actions prejudicial to the rule of law,” said the secretary general.
