Raipur, November 23
After persistently galling ruling BJP for six months, especially during recent polls, the ghost of May 25 Darbha case is out again and this time it is haunting IPS lobby that looks uptight ever since Congress indicated of taking stringent action against those cops, who were directly or indirectly responsible for the occurrence of the gory incident, if power changes in State.
The Congress has already expressed its displeasure over action taken by ruling BJP in wake of Darbha incident in which Maoists had killed its top-rung opposition leaders.
Post incident, the State government ordered judicial probe and removed two IPS officials for failing to provide adequate security to Congress leaders during their parivartan yatra in Bastar. The two officials were IG Bastar Range Himanshu Gupta who was attached to police headquarters (PHQ) and Jagdalpur SP Mayank Shrivastava who was suspended.
The opposition gathered factual reports instantly after the incident by sending a probe team to ground zero. The report contains significant points like negligence by local police station, district headquarters and PHQ. The report also says that several officials were trying to save their faces on pretext of rules. The party is said to have submitted a copy of this report to national investigation agency (NIA).
The Congress is also upset with the police. It says that the police are expected to reach to some concrete conclusion about root cause of the incident now, but they still seem groping in the dark.
The party further expresses its surprise over lack of coordination between the PHQ and district police during VIP movement in Bastar. It thinks besides, security lapse, there was failure in exchange of information and monitoring too.
When CM Raman Singh admitted that the incident happened due to security lapse the Congress asked it to fix responsibility and take action against the cops who were responsible for it. The government, however, did not entertain the Congress’ demand.
The party says it wants justice for its deceased leaders. It is now eagerly waiting for poll results to be announced on December 8. If it comes to power, it is less likely to spare the responsible officials. Knowing that the Congress would pose unrelenting face towards them, some of the IPS officials are reportedly attempting to go to Centre on deputation.
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