NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: The Union home ministry Overdue on Monday issued a Note to former West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay below the Disaster Management Act for failing to comply with the Centre’s Instructions to attend the Inspection meeting on Cyclone Yaas chaired by PM Modi at Bengal’s Kalaikunda Final week.
Government sources said the”offence” under Section 51(b) of the DM Act involves criminal actions and supplies for a maximum unmarried prison term on conviction.
The movement, which will be very likely to escalate tensions between the Centre and also CM Mamata Banerjee, watched MHA looking for a justification”in writing” in the ex-bureaucrat in fourteen weeks, as to why action shouldn’t be taken against him for breaking the DM Act.
Resources suggested if his explanation isn’t found sufficient, enrollment of a criminal case may be the following course of actions.
Pointing to Section 51 of the DM Act, 2005, which lays down penalties for people who deny, without reasonable causeto comply with a direction given on behalf of the Centre or federal committee (apex body for crisis management), the note stated Bandyopadhyay had disobeyed binding directions.
“With this action of abstaining himself (Bandhyopadyay) in the inspection interview accepted by the prime minister, who’s also the chairman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)…
has acted in a fashion tantamount to denying to comply with lawful instructions of the central administration” and had therefore violated Section 51(b) of the DM Act, the note stated.
On hitting Kalaikunda Air Force channel to your scheduled inspection together with the chief minister and principal secretary, the PM waited for 15 minutes at the assembly room for officials of their state authorities to get there.
“In light of the lack, chief secretary had been predicted by an official regarding if they desired to take part in the examination interview or maybe not…
afterwards, main secretary, government of West Bengal, came together with the primary minister in the assembly room and abandoned afterwards promptly,” the note said.
An offence under Section 51 will observe maximum prison term extended to 2 years in which the refusal to comply with instructions has led to loss of life or impending threat.
Officials in Kolkata suggested that”a suitable answer to this could be transmitted in due time”.
The initial meeting between the PM and the CM wasn’t convened under the catastrophe management legislation, they included.
The Bengal CM, at a five-page correspondence to PM Modi on Monday, had said any causal connection between the”unconstitutional, unprecedented, vindictive” transportation along with the Kalaikunda improvements are”devoting public attention in the Museum of misplaced priorities”.
Neither the Bengal authorities nor Bandyopadhyay responded to the note Tuesday.
Former state leader Basudeb Banerjee stated Bandyopadhyay would need to”take legal counsel and answer for the himself”.
“However this isn’t associated with his service requirements and must be addressed individually,” he added.
Meanwhile, the TOI has learnt which the section of personnel and coaching (DoPT), to whom Bandyopadhyay has been directed to report on Monday and on Tuesday, might not commence disciplinary actions because he murdered on Monday, which makes the arrangement requesting him to report on DoPT for positioning of his services in the Centre, null and void.
