Published on counterclects. opinionmaster. co. in dated – 16 November 2011.
I n a not the first time incident the Uttar pradesh government had to unceremoniously discharge an serving IPS( Indian Police Service) official from his office / post. DIG( Director-Inspector General of Police) Fire Department – UP government Mr Devendranath Dutt Mishra, wrote in file on ' Fire Incidents ',“ Everything in Uttar Pradesh Government was illegal and corrupt. This is the biggest scam.” { Reported in The Hindu on 6 November 2011; page 10.}
This Sealed his downfall and initiated a sequence of events which lead to sensational exit of the IPS officer from his office and was forcibly hospitalized – Chhatrapati Shahuji maharaja Medical University( CSSMU).
The Head of psychiatric department AT CSSMU, conveyed to the press outside the hospital that the senior IPS officer was suffering from“ Bipolar episodic disorder” and that the current episode is related to Mania without Psychotic disturbances.
We have through our various interactions have met some of such unceremoniously discharged“ Men of Law”, Many of them now work as teachers and trainers in various institutions and conduct coaching classes for IAS / Civil services aspirants. Mr R C Sinha the proprietor of“ New Delhi IAS” is one of the well-known IPS officers of Assam cadre who was unceremoniously discharged after being declared Mentally Unfit, Following his allegations that the state IG( Assam) as also the Assam Home Minister was involved in Human Trafficking and prostitution. Mr. R C Sinha had approached the superiors threatened to shoot them if they don ' t come out and confess to the crime.
Mr S V Patil – A KAS officer( Karnataka Administrative Service) also experienced an unsavory relationship with his superiors, after he was found breaking conventions of conduct and mingling openly with youth and sportsmen while serving in the Youth sports secretariat in Government of Karnataka. He has spent 7 – 8 years outside the system cooling his heels, teaching Public Administration to Civil Service Aspirants and Under Graduates. The last we met he had expressed a desire to re-join, with the favorable assistance of a senior serving IAS officer in the Government of Karnataka.
While these stories are just another side of Civil Servants ' life. It strengthens the need for an independent statutory“ whistle-blowers” legislation, So as to provide protection for the brave and upright, helping them in all ways possible to enforce and uphold Law and its institutions. This also highlights the shoddy and hurried aimless manner of training of our IPS and IAS recruits, The Total absence of any training for State Civil Services Recruits in Government of India and Her constituent State Governments, notwithstanding strong Opinions for it. The discontinuity of the training makes it difficult for the incumbents to understand and come to terms with the pressures of the Job, They lack of learning experiences from the surviving veterans on the Job makes it all the more worse. After having spent a lifetime being compliant and amenable to all pressures bad and worse- rarely if ever lucky- Good pressures, only to finally dissolve into the ether that