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| 'Indispensability' of Kashmir Police officer giving heartburns to contemporaries | | | ET Report
srinagar, Oct 24: Even as the official chair is nobody's personal fiefdom, the state government is treating a senior police official as "indispensible" to tackle situation in Kashmir, drawing flak from others in the Khaki ranks.
A senior police official, holding a crucial assignment in Kashmir range, was scheduled to take weeklong off to attend a specialized training abroad. On October 22, the Home department had ordered that his colleague of the same rank would hold this additional charge till then.
But in an overnight development the government decided not to allow the official to go abroad for it "didn't find any official as capable as him to run policing back home in Kashmir."
Sources said Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti held a closed door meeting with her close aides including "Super Cabinet" to reconsider the decision.
Sources said the "secret meetings" decided it would be inappropriate to give the "crucial charge of tackling unrest in Kashmir to any other officer as situation may take any ugly turn."
"How can we trust anyone else in the midst of the crises and give him a chance to run Kashmir affairs, this may backlash," insiders quoted some of the PDP ministers and other close aides of having told the meeting.
Subsequently though Sunday was a holiday, the Commissioner Secretary Home Department was directed to revoke the previous orders of giving charge for four days to the other official.
The official, who was scheduled to travel aboard, happens to be relative of a PDP minister, and "some others in the ruling party." "The government is understood to be taking him as a close aide," the insiders said.
This overnight change in the government orders, on the other hand, has left the police officials annoyed. "Once an official is asked not to leave the charge it simply means that the higher ups are is unwilling to give the charge to anyone else presumably due to lack of trust… But this is something heard of in democratic setups," said an official in the Civil Secretariat here, asking not to be named.
By disallowing the "favorite" official to leave his chair, the government has not only raised concerns over credibility of other officials but has contradicted its claims of improvement in situation.
Just last week, the Additional Director General of Police SP Vaid said there was considerable improvement in situation in Kashmir. "If there is improvement in situation, why was he not allowed to go abroad? Otherwise also can any official be taken as indispensible or is it a case of favoritism as he happens to be close relative of some ministers and others," said a group of police officials, on the condition of anonymity.
While the government finds this "influential" official as "matchless", eyebrows are already raised over his competence in tackling chronic unrest in Kashmir. Security analysts believe that he failed to contain the situation, which erupted in the wake of killing of militant commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani and his two colleagues on July 8.
Observers opine that failure of the government to impose timely strict curfew, coupled with undue interference in policing from some immature PDP ministers worsened the situation in Kashmir and "it continues to be so since."
Despite repeated attempts the police official could not be contacted for comments. |
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