CHANDIGARH: Haryana's Khattar government has begun taking strict action against officials indicted in the Prakash Singh Committee report for their alleged negligence of duty during last year's violent Jat quota agitation. After chargesheeting two Rohtak DSPs, Amit Dahiya and Amit Bhatia, the BJP government chargesheeted another two, Sukhbir Singh, and Satish Kumar, who were already under suspension.
Sources said that the officials would be chargesheeted for departmental actions under a major penalty clause, which included the possibility of dismissal from service. Additional Chief Secretary Ram Niwas said that the innocent would not be punished, however, those found guilty would not be spared. Immediately after the violent Jat quota stir, the Haryana government suspended senior IPS officer and IGP Shrikant Jadhav and Amit Dahiya and Amit Bhatia.
Also suspended, were three HCS officers, Dharmender Singh, Pankaj Kumar and Jagdeep Singh, who were posted as SDMs at Gohana, Jhajjar, and Hansi. Eight DSPs, in addition to the four already mentioned, Surender Singh, Vijayendra Singh, Pawan Kumar, Jagat Singh, Sandeep Malik, Rajbir Singh, Vinod Kumar, and Sunil Kumar, were also suspended. The Prakash Singh Committee report had allegedly indicted nearly 90 officials, including IAS, IPS, HCS, and DSP-level officers for their alleged negligence during the stir.
The qouta agitation had claimed 30 lives and caused destruction to property worth millions of rupees.
