Garhwa DC Harsha Mangala has taken seriously the matter of disappearance of people from Quarantine ward in Chittavishram Panchayat of Shri Banshidhar Nagar Block.
He has directed the BDO to file an FIR against all the six missing persons immediately. The DC has also seized the financial powers of the Mukhiya of the Panchayat. A report will also send against Mukhiya to the department for removal of the Mukhiya from his post.
In this regard, Mangla has informed that the Quarantine ward was investigated by Shri Banshidhar Nagar SDO Kamleshwar Narayan in the morning. In the course of the investigation, all six people kept in the quarantine ward were found missing.
Workers deputed to look after the Mukhiya and the people were also found missing. It has been instructed to file an FIR against all the six people missing from the ward. Also, he is under house arrest at a remote Quarantine Center elsewhere.
A letter is being sent to the department to seize the financial power of Mushtaq Ahmad Shaikh, the Mukhiya of Chittavishram Panchayat, to depose him. He has informed that the contracted nodal personnel in Quarantine ward will be freed from service by suspending their contract.
"On the complaint of VLW cum in-charge Panchayat Secretary Umesh Ram, FIR lodged against six persons under sections of 188,269,290 and 34 IPC," said thana in-charge of Banshidhar Nagar Pankaj Tiwari.