SHILLONG: The CSWO expressed their surprise over the violation of rules by the Government, to the very extent of breaking the very laws laid down by them, in the process of selecting the senior most IPS as the DGP of Meghalaya.
“The Supreme Court has laid down that the top 3 senior most IPS officers should be appointed as the DGP of a State, but the Meghalaya Government passed an Meghalaya Police Act to bring in the top 5 senior most IPS.”
“Even that Act was not respected and they had to bring in another IPS who is junior and in the 6-7 rank, superseding senior most officers,” the CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing said in a statement issued her on Sunday.
According to Khars-hiing, Meghalaya is very much at a stage where all laws are being violated by those in Governance, and Police running their own show.
They do not even dare make arrests of influential people in Government in spite of many cases filed against them and such rise in corruption lead to a lot of Human Rights violations. Political games are played and Officers with respect become pawns in the hands of Politicians.
“Moreover, the Authorized Cadre Strength of the Indian Police Service (as on January 1, 2013) is 2 for the Assam Meghalaya Cadre post of DGP.”
“This clearly shows that violations are being entertained and those who do not oblige are sidelined, and the reason for police not daring to make arrests of those who scam the State of crores of rupees by selling land to the Government on forged papers where 10.91 crores of public money was spent, those who manipulate score sheets, those who adulterate the ICDS food for children, those who cheat people by bringing in fake companies like the NSEM, those who are indicted by CBI for putting an innocent person in Jail for more than 10 years and the various rape cases being disposed off for lack of evidence and faulty investigations,” Kharshiing said.