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| Top cop lobbying for yet another extension | | Irked officials to lodge protest with Home Ministry | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 8: The police top-brass in the state is feeling "uncomfortable" as one of their senior colleagues is lobbying for another extension before his retirement this month.
The official was set to retire in September this year. He was however recommended for three-month extension by the Cabinet and the recommendation was subsequently sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, for approval. The Home Ministry approved the extension.
Now, when the official is all set to attain superannuation on December 31, he is strongly lobbying to get another extension, sources told Early Times.
While the state government is understood to be discussing the matter and assured him of considering his case, the development has not gone down well in the police top brass which terms it "showering of undue benefits and setting bad precedence."
"Services of every policeman from the level of constable to the official of highest order have always been exemplary and meritorious because the police department is always expected to be willing to sacrifice life for the country. So why extensions to only one official? If rendering meritorious services is the yardstick for extension of services than no police official should retire at all," a group of senior officials told Early Times.
They said the official was lobbying for extension again so that he is in chair till March 31, when the financial closing takes place.
"Actually police force has huge funds and financial transactions for the fiscal are yet to complete. So in a bid to be in chair in the last quarter when most of the transactions take place, he wants extension," the officials explained.
They said while none of them wants to pick up the matter with the state government, they are likely to discuss it with the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
"We have reliable inputs that the state Cabinet which is likely to meet in the coming days will discuss the matter and send another recommendation to the Union Home Minister. So we want to keep New Delhi apprised about fallouts of any such decision," the officials said, asking not be named.
Sources said a lobby in the PDP has been telling the state government to give another extension to the official so that they get "more time to decide about his successor." |
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