KOLKATA: The Centre has pioneered”major penalty proceedings” against former Bengal main secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, requesting him to react within a month into the charges framed against him for failing to attend Yaas inspection meeting in Kalaikunda using PM Narendra Modi on May 28.
The event, which may deprive officials of post-retirement gains partially or entirely when proved guilty, comes from the background of a Centre-state stand-off within the 1987-batch IAS officer.
The Centre initial okayed a three-month expansion for Bandyopadhyay because the nation’s chief secretary however, four days after, led him to attend and function in Delhi.
Bandyopadhyay decided to find retirement on May 31 following the Bengal government refused to discharge him.
The nation subsequently appointed him CM Mamata Banerjee’s primary advisor to get a three-year interval.
Bandyopadhyay, who had a bereavement in the family last week, has been unavailable for comment however senior Bengal police officers affirmed he hadn’t obtained”any formal communicating until Monday day”.
“All legal obligations, but ought to be complied with in deadline,” among the officers stated.
The Centre’s most recent notice, delivered on June 16, also has asked Bandyopadhyay if he’d love to reply in man.
It costs him with”neglecting to maintain complete integrity and dedication to duty and demonstrating conduct unbecoming of a public servant”.
The state authorities and CM Banerjee have rebutted the charges from Bandyopadhyay.
Inclement weather and shortage of air traffic management consent postponed their landing in the Kalaikunda base, Banerjee’d clarified.
She, together with Bandyopadhyay, had met the PM and then”searched his consent” to visit Digha for the following Yaas review interview, the Bengal CM had included.
Banerjee has also asked the Centre if the activity from Bandyopadhyay was part of its own”political vendetta and vindictiveness”.
The correspondence delivered to Bandyopadhyay informs him that the Centre suggests to maintain”significant punishment proceedings” against him under Rule 8 of those All-India Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1969, along with Rule 6 of their All-India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958.
The principles enable the central government to withhold”pension or gratuity, or even either, either in total or part, whether or not for a certain interval” if officers have been proved guilty.
Bengal main secretary H K Dwivedi has responded to a division of staff and coaching note, describing that Bandyopadhyay retired May 31, the state authorities decided to not launch him to take the Delhi mission and Bandyopadhyay wasn’t actually empanelled using the Centre.
CM Banerjee had written to the Centre prior to the state administration’s inability to launch Bandyopadhyay and contested its movement to rally him to Delhi hardly four days after devoting her petition to let him remain because the state leader for just three weeks.