Probe report on IPS officer Afroz submitted to Himachal Assembly Secretariat

A elder serviceman said, “We received the probe study connected the allegations against the pistillate IPS serviceman earlier this week. It came from the bureau of the DGP, Himachal Pradesh. Although we informed the constabulary office via email that the study should person travel from the Home Secretary’s bureau alternatively of the DGP, it volition inactive beryllium presented earlier the privileges committee.”

During the monsoon league successful September past year, Doon Congress MLA Ram Kumar Chaudhary alleged that then-SP Baddi, Ilma Afroz, had breached his idiosyncratic secrecy by misusing her authority. Later, Afroz applied for permission and kept extending it until she was posted to the authorities constabulary office successful Shimla connected December 17. The MLA and Afroz had strained relations from the beginning, arsenic she had earlier taken ineligible enactment against machinery belonging to the Congress MLA’s woman aft it was recovered progressive successful amerciable mining.

Afroz, who was posted arsenic Baddi SP, proceeded connected a 15-day earned permission starting November 7. Subsequently, the complaint of SP Baddi was handed implicit to Himachal Pradesh Police Service (HPPS) serviceman Vinod Kumar Dhiman connected November 14. Afroz is yet to person a caller posting aft returning to work connected December 17 astatine the constabulary office successful Shimla.

Meanwhile, a petitioner, Sucha Ram, has filed a plea successful the Himachal Pradesh High Court, Shimla, claiming that Afroz was pressured into taking permission and that instrumentality and bid successful the country deteriorated aft her transfer. The petition highlights that during her tenure, Afroz took strict enactment against amerciable mining, the cause menace, and organized transgression successful the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Development (BBND) area.

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