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Friday, June 4, 1999

State Govt still to take action against mutinous SRP jawans

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AHMEDABAD, June 3: Almost a month after State Reserve Police jawans and their families roughed up Additional Director-General S. Banerjee and Kheda DSP B.D. Vaghela when they visited the Nadiad SRP camp, the state government hasn't taken the stringent action it promised it would take.

Minister of State for Home Haren Pandya said that the issue has died out and that investigations were on. Haren Pandya said the concerned officers have been transferred and the police was trying to identify the jawans and their family members who had taken part in the attack.

On May 5, Banerjee and Vaghela were roughed up by SRP jawans who went beserk. The jawans and their families had gathered the impression that the camp was being shifted to Kheda, and were opposed to it. Banerjee was there to convince them that not all families were being moved from the Nadiad camp. But all of a sudden, jawans, their families, and some recruits who had gathered there went on the rampage. They smashed glass panes, damaged telephones, and roughed up the senior officers.

Pandya also said that Banerjee and Vaghela had submitted their report but the government would take action only after investigations are completed.

The investigating officer, DySP G.L. Singhal of Kapadwanj, said the investigations had been held up because he was on long leave, but would be completed next week. The police is recording statements.

It was not as if no action had been taken, said home secretary K. Nityanandam. Two State Reserve Police DySPs had been transferred, and a departmental inquiry was on. Some recruits who took part in the attack had been immediately shifted to Karia.

``But the government is yet to decide what punitive action is to be taken,'' he said.

Banerjee, too, said that a case had been registered and investigations were on. He said he had submitted his report to Director-General of Police C.P. Singh.

Since there were enough pointers that the attack had been planned, and that there was open disobedience of senior officers, the government had promised serious action. That, however, hasn't happened till now.

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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