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| Faced suspension for entering into NC leader's ancestral house while discharging his duties | | Police officer defied Sagar's diktat to apologize | | Fazal Khan
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 15: A police officer was placed under suspension in July 2014, after he refused to tender an apology to the close relatives of the former Rural Development Minister and incumbent General Secretary of National Conference Ali Mohammad Sagar.
The Sub inspector of Police Syed Waseem Jehangir had to face Sagar's ire when he entered into the ancestral house of the senior National Conference leader while chasing a group of stone pelters, whom the officer had claimed took refuge inside the Sagar's ancestral home at Nawab Bazar in old city.
At that point of time the NC spokesman Junaid Azim Mattu had justified the suspension of the police officer saying, "This disciplinary must have been required as it's illegal to barge into residences of people."
Sources told Early Times the police officer barging into Sagar's ancestral home infuriated him to an extent that he wanted to "terminate" him from the police department. "It was only after the intervention of a few top police officials that Sagar agreed to SI's suspension," said a source.
He said the SI refusing to tender an apology became a pretext for his suspension. "The police officer during his tenure had tightened the noose around many people who were involved in illegal trades and gambling in the old city," a source said. "The officer had even launched a massive crackdown over the gangs operating in Srinagar's old city especially in Khanyar area, Sagar's constituency."
The sources said people who enjoyed alleged political patronage purportedly had approached Sagar and sought his intervention into the matter as the police officer in question had become an eyesore for them. "Sagar used his power and influence to get the officer suspended to leave the field open for such people whose activities had come under scanner," the source added.
An official who wished not to be named said that the case of the police officer getting suspended came to fore as news got leaked to media. "Many honest and upright officials who refused to toe the line of their political bosses were transferred, sacked, or attached during the erstwhile NC-Cong regime. Anarchy prevailed in JK for the six years" the official alleged.
He claimed that only those officers, who acted as "yes men," were given plum postings and positions, as they left no chance to appease their political masters. "In power NC ministers left no stone unturned to use their position and power to do whatever they could. They acted like monarchs and left no chance to establish their writ," said an analyst.
He said NC facing "humiliating defeat" in the recent assembly elections was a result of its leaders becoming "larger than their size" and "power going into their heads."
"Soon after NC was ousted out of power people heaved a sigh of relief and thanked their stars for 6-year long nightmare being over," the analyst added. |
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