IPS charges AP Intelligence chief with atrocity
January 6, 2009: Daily Pioneer
A conferred IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh has created flutter by lodging a complaint of atrocity against another senior IPS officer and State Intelligence chief K Arvinda Rao with the Hyderabad city police.
A Sundar Kumar Das, who was conferred the IPS back in 1998 and now holds the post of the Chief Vigilance Officer of Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation has lodged the complaint with the Saifabad police station of the city alleging that Additional Director General of police (Intelligence) K Arvinda Rao indulged in discrimination against him on the caste basis and thus was liable for prosecution under the ST/ST (Prevention of atrocities) Act 1989 and Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955.
Das in his complaint said that while he was ignored in the appointment at important posts including that of district incharge, conferred IPS officers much junior to him were given key position. He gave instance of one Siva Sankar Reddy, who was promoted to IPS in 2007 and was made Deputy Commissioner of Police in Hyderabad.
Holding Arvinda Rao responsible for the discrimination, Sundar Das said, ¶Aravinda Rao was expected to brief the Government objectively on the credentials of the officers. But he dishonestly, deliberately, and continuously maligned me by resorting to character assassination and giving false and frivolous information with animosity and caste bias as I am an SC and an untouchable according to him¶.
Sundar Das alleged that whenever his name came up for consideration for posting, Arvinda Rao opposed it. But Arvinda Rao reacting to the allegations said that he had nothing to do with any postings by the Government. ¶It is the Government which makes the appointments¶, he said.
Sources close to Arvinda Rao said he was considering a legal action and filing defamation against Sundar Das for levelling allegations and going to the media over it.
The senior police officers are surprised over the action of Sundar Das and they are openly wondering whether the issue of Government posting can be take up under SC/ST Atrocities Act.
Some quarters in the police are seeing the episode as a fall out of the turf war between two groups of IPS officers.
¶Some senior officers are using Sundar Das as a tool against another senior officer¶, a source confided.
