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IPS officer sacked for illegal 2nd marriage

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August 7, 2017

New Delhi, Aug 7: The Centre has sacked two IPS officers, including one for entering into a second marriage without having annulled the first, under a rule that allows it to compulsorily retire civil servants "in public interest".

Both the DIG-level officers belong to Chhattisgarh cadre. The two officers removed under the All India Services Rules-1958 are AM Juri from the 2000 batch and K C Agrawal from the 2002 batch. While Juri was reportedly retired for taking a second wife without divorcing his first spouse, which is barred under the All India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1968. Agrawal was sacked over 'nonperformance' in view of allegations of corruption. Both the officers faced the axe on the basis of adverse reports from Chhattisgarh following a state-level panel review. Juri is alleged to have remarried without legally annulling his first marriage. He also has two children from the second 'wife'. Though this was a personal detail known well to his bosses and fellow officers, the state is believed to have been spurred to initiate action against him when his second wife wrote to it, pleading that her two kids be declared legal heirs for inheritance purposes.

According to the state government's report forwarded to the home ministry, the cadre controlling authority for all IPS officers, a verification based on school records of the two children showed that Juri was indeed their father.

"Given that Rule 19 of AIS (Conduct) Rules clearly bars a member of the service from entering into, or contracting a marriage with a person having a spouse living, the state government took a serious view of the violation of the said rule by Juri and put him on the watch list. The home ministry, also viewing it as an 'open and shut' case, decided to recommend it to ACC to compulsorily retire him in public interest," a home ministry officer said.

In 2015, the Supreme Court had ordered that a person violating the rule that prohibits a government servant from having two wives simultaneously was liable to be sacked, even if he happened to be a Muslim.

Juri, who joined the state police service in 1983, was promoted to IPS in 2000, while Agrawal joined the state police service in 1985 and was promoted to IPS in 2002.

According to service rules, the central government may, in consultation with the state government concerned, require a member of the service to retire in public interest, after giving at least three month notice in writing or as many months' pay and allowances in lieu of such notice. In January, Mayank Sheel Chohan, a 1998 batch Union Territory cadre officer, and Raj Kumar Dewangan, a 1992 batch Chhattisgarh cadre officer, were removed from the service on similar grounds.

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May 19,2020

Bareilly (UP), May 19: Samajwadi leader Chhotelal Diwakar and his son, Sunil Diwakar, were shot dead in broad daylight in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. The entire incident was caught on camera.

The murder was apparently a fallout of a dispute over laying of a road under MGNREGA.

Chhotelal Diwakar had contested the 2017 assembly elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket.

Superintendent of Police, (SP), Sambhal, Yamuna Prasad, said, "Some work was being carried out under MGNREGA due to which some dispute happened. Two people have been shot dead. We will reach the spot of the incident to find more details."

According to his family members, Diwakar and his son had gone for a walk in the fields when the assailants came on a motorbike and after a brief altercation, shot them dead. They fled on foot, leaving their motorbike behind.

A large number of SP workers reached the village soon after the news of the double murder spread.

SP Yamuna Prasad who reached the spot that falls under Behjoi police station, soon after the murders, said that a manhunt has been launched for the assailants. He said that further investigations were underway and the bodies have been sent for post mortem.

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July 28,2020

Noida, Jul 28: A doctor admitted at a private hospital in Noida has been accused of sexually harassing a patient in his isolation ward, where both were undergoing treatment for COVID-19, the police said.

The 20-year-old woman, in her complaint to the police, alleged that the incident took place on Monday and based on that a case was filed at the local expressway police station, they said.

A senior police official said an investigation is underway and there might be lapses on part of the hospital which allegedly admitted a man and a woman in the same isolation ward, in violation of the norms.

The woman and the doctor had tested positive for coronavirus last week, according to officials.

"The woman was in the isolation ward of the private hospital. There was a man, a medical practitioner, who too was infected with coronavirus and was sharing the ward with her," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Noida, Ranvijay Singh said.

He said the woman alleged molestation and upon being informed, the police immediately lodged a case and initiated a probe into the matter.

"There appears to be some irresponsibility on part of the hospital too. We are communication with the medical departments to check whether the patients were being kept in accordance with the guidelines," Mr Singh said.

He said the accused is still in isolation but the police will reach out for his statement following due protocols of COVID-19.

"All necessary action will be taken as per the truth that will emerge after a thorough investigation," Mr Singh said.

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March 15,2020

Mumbai, Mar 15: Three suspected coronavirus patients who were quarantined left a government hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district on Saturday evening without informing anybody, the police said.

By late night, however, two of them returned to the Ahmednagar district civil hospital. Search was on for the third patient, a Topkhana police station officer said.

Earlier, two women and a man admitted to an isolation ward of the district hospital in Ahmednagar, left without informing the doctors, an officer said.

The civil surgeon contacted the Tophkhana police station in Ahmednagar city and sought polices help in tracing these persons, whose medical reports are awaited, the official added.

A person in Ahmednagar district is among the 31 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Maharashtra.

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