Basant Rath, J&K Officer IPS, suspended for serious misconduct and misconduct: Center

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Basant Rath was removed from IGP traffic after a fight with the exmayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation

New Delhi:

Jammu and Kashmir police inspector Basant Rath, who made the headlines for being involved in a fight with Union police chief Dilbagh Singh, has been suspended “With immediate effect” for alleged “serious misconduct and misconduct,” officials said. Wednesday.

According to an order issued by the Union’s interior ministry on Tuesday evening, Rath, a 2,000-batch IPS officer currently assigned to the interior guards department in Srinagar, was asked not to leave the headquarters without the authorization of the director general of the police. .

The order indicated that disciplinary proceedings against Mr. Rath had been initiated due to “repeated cases of gross negligence and misconduct” brought to the attention of the government.

The order came exactly two weeks after Mr. Rath entered a police station in the locality of Gandhi Nagar in Jammu to file a complaint fearing for his “life, liberty and bald head” and appointed Mr. Singh as the “reason” for these apprehensions.

Mr. Rath made it clear that he was complaining as a “private citizen” and in “personal capacity”.

Promoted to the rank of Inspector General in 2018, Mr. Rath was assigned to the Traffic Department during which he gained a lot of fans for directing the force and disciplining traffic in his own style, including chasing after offenders and even engage in verbal duels in public. glare.

The quarrel with the police chief began in June when Mr. Rath’s response to a tweet posted by a handful in the name of “dilbagh Singh ” sparked a storm on social media.

Mr Rath called the Twitter pseudo “dilloo” which is not an official pseudonym of the Union police chief.

This infuriated the police chief who published his reaction in a private Whatsapp group, with members of the police, bureaucrats and journalists, in which he described Mr. Rath as “joker and useless”.

Mr. Rath was removed from IGP traffic after a public fight with former mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation Junaid Mattoo.

(This story has not been edited by GalacticGaming staff and is automatically generated from a syndicated feed.)

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