‘At loggerheads with MLA’, Baddi SP applies for extension of leave

An AIG-rank constabulary serviceman looking aft media connection astatine Shimla constabulary headquarter said, “We can’t marque immoderate remark connected the development. We volition cheque the substance and past reply”.

The IPS serviceman had proceeded connected 15-day earned permission connected November 7 to be to her ailing parent amidst reports of her differences with Congress MLA from Doon, Ram Kumar Chaudhary. During the caller monsoon league of the Vidhan Sabha successful September, MLA Chaudhary had moved a privilege question against the officer. The enquiry into the question was assigned to DIG Abhishek Dullar, who is presently attending a month-long promotion people successful Hyderabad.

Talking to The Indian Express implicit the telephone connected November 8, the MLA had distanced himself from the sanctioned permission of the pistillate IPS officer. He had said, “Indeed, the constabulary had erstwhile challaned a motortruck belonging to 1 of our firms for amerciable mining but that substance is settled now. I moved a privilege question against her for breaching my secrecy done my operator during the caller monsoon session. The enquiry is on. I person thing to bash with immoderate constabulary officer’s leave, transportation etc.”

Chaudhary was 1 of the six Chief Parliamentary Secretaries (CPSs) precocious removed from their posts aft the Shimla High Court declared the Himachal Pradesh Chief Parliamentary Secretaries Act, 2006, null and void connected November 13.

Amid reports linking the officer’s permission to her differences with the Congress MLA, the Himachal Pradesh Police issued a connection connected November 16, stating, “Superintendent of Police, District Baddi, Ilma Afroz, IPS (HP:2018), has been sanctioned 15-day earned permission from November 7, 2024, to November 21, 2024, to be to her mother, who is presently unwell. During her leave, Vinod Kumar-II, HPPS (2007), presently Commandant of the 8th Battalion, Home Guards, District Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, has been temporarily deployed to oversee constabulary operations successful District Baddi until Ms. Afroz resumes her duties. There is nary request for immoderate speculation.”

On November 16, HPPS serviceman Dhiman, who has been officiating arsenic SP (Baddi), met Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu astatine his bureau successful the State Secretariat successful Shimla. Talking to The Indian Express, the officiating Baddi SP stated, “My main absorption is to curb the cause menace successful the Baddi area. Being an concern hub, determination is simply a important migrant colonisation here. Maintaining instrumentality and bid successful this country is my apical priority. There are six constabulary stations successful Baddi.”

Afroz is simply a postgraduate of St. Stephen’s College successful Delhi and has besides studied astatine the University of Oxford successful England connected a scholarship.