The Central IAS Officers’ Association on Thursday sought immediate intervention of the Centre and Bihar Government into the alleged “arbitrary functioning” of the police against officers posted in the State.
The association, which represents 4,926 officials working across the country, also supported the demand of its Bihar IAS Association Branch for a probe by an independent agency like the CBI in cases involving two civil servants- Sudhir Kumar and Jitendra Gupta.
In a statement, the association asked both the State as well as the Central Government to ensure that hardworking, honest and sincere civil servants are not demoralised by arbitrary and malafide actions of the police machinery in Bihar. The
association sought immediate help of the Centre to check alleged arbitrariness by the Bihar police in acting against civil servants.
Secretary of the association Sanjay Bhoosreddy said “It appears that the police is acting arbitrarily there and they need to follow the rule of the law. There should be a thorough probe in the cases involving the two IAS officers by an independent agency,”
The move comes following alleged wrongful arrest of 2013 batch IAS officer Jitendra Gupta and 1987 batch IAS officer Sudhir Kumar of Bihar cadre.
The association after perusing all the facts placed before it by its Bihar unit has decided to support both the resolutions which includes safety and security for its officers as well as a probe by an independent agency.
The association claimed that the Bihar police had acted in a malafide manner against Gupta while serving as Sub-Divisional Magistrate Mohania. Without learning from their past experience, whereby both the Patna High Court and the Supreme Court deprecated the police for their ingeniousness in fabricating false cases with ulterior motives and in a mala fide manner, the police this time arrested Sudhir Kumar, chairman, Bihar Staff Selection Commission from Hazaribagh on the night of February 23, it alleged.
According to the association statement, the arrest
was shown on record to have been made from Patna at around 11 am in the morning of February 24 despite Kumar fully cooperating with the investigating agencies, the statement said.
“He was neither absconding nor was found tampering with evidence, if any. Therefore, there was no need to arrest him without following the procedure and precautions of arrest as provided in Section 41 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Therefore, the IAS Officers’ Association of Bihar has dema-
nded independent inquiry, equity, justice and fair play, that the case forthwith be transferred to the CBI,” the officers’ body said.