Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Tuesday ordered strict action against the Officer In-charge of lalpur police station for pressurising a girl to compromise with her parents. She had lodged a complaint against her parents for compelling her to discontinue her studies and get married.
According to the complaint lodged by Bhawana Kumari at Mahila Thana, her father, brother, mother and sister also used to assault her physically right from her childhood.
“Whether the Officer In-charge is sitting there to get the cases compromised or take action against the culprits…this will not do…take strict action against him,” said the CM.
The case was put before the CM by the journalists asking for his reaction over the case which was being aired on the television, where the girl, along with her friends, alleged that she was being pressurised by the police to get her complaint back.
Das, during a Jan Samvad programme at Suchna Bhawan, gave directions in 20 cases put before him for hearing from across the State. The girl is presently studying in a coaching institute and preparing for banking services.
Remarkably, father of the girl Subodh Kumar Singh has lodged another complaint at lalpur police station where he has charged Manager Pankaj Kumar Soni and student Sumesh Priyadarshi of luring her daughter to some illegal activities. “When he went to the institute to talk to them he was thrashed and locked inside the hall for several hours.”
“When I went to the management of the institute to tell them that I did not want my daughter to continue with this institute they thrashed me badly and even put me inside the hall for several hours and warned me of dire consequences if I do something in this regard,” stated the father in his complaint. Meanwhile, a case has been registered against the manager and the student of the coaching institute.
While hearing another case related to education department, the CM questioned the working of the department and asked the Secretary why so many cases remained pending and why files do not move from one table to another without the complainant running after the officials.
The present working culture of the department needs to be changed immediately,he said.
The matter was related to lalchand Sahu of Palkot in Gumla, who has been working as a teacher in minority middle School in Kaumba and was not getting his salary since 2010. The CM asked the edcation secretary to look into the matter immediately and start his payment.
In a similar case of Jonson Kujur from Chaibasa, discharged from State Food Corporaton, his slaries for 52 months have been held back by the corporation. when the CM enquired into the matter, they said that his salary was hold back as Johnson has charged of swindling a sum of Rs 61 lakh. The CM reacting to it, directed the Managing Director to immediately meet the complaintant and take a decision in this regard.
The Chief Minister also inaugurated the new website of Jan Samvad Centre, which is based on a new software. According to Principal Secretary to CM Sanjay Kumar, 36882 complaints have been lodged with the Jan Samvad Kendra out of which 16,330 have been sorted out.