The district administration will not withdraw cases against the Government employees who were deputed to poll duty for the three-tier panchayat polls, but failed to attend the training programme for panchayat election recently.
Additionally, the returning officers of Kalsi and Sahaspur blocks where polling for Panchayat election will be held on June 21 have been directed to lodge FIRs against Government employees who are found absent from election duty, said Additional DM and election in charge officer (Personnel) Pratap Singh Shah while taking to The Pioneer on Thursday.
The ADM had recently directed SP City Navneet Singh Bhullar to lodge FIRs under section 77 of Representation of the People Act 1951 against 74 government employees who were deputed on election duty but had failed attend the training programme held for Panchayat election in the district. These Government employees were issued show cause notice by the election officer but they failed to reply to the election office within the given time frame. Shah further said that after lodging of FIRs against the employees in the police station, they began reaching the election office for submitting reply of show cause notice issued by him in the past.