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Bihar Govt Suspends Jehanabad Police Chief
2005-11-16
Bihar Governor Buta Singh yesterday suspended the district Police Chief, Superintendent Sunil Kumar Singh, for the delay in action taken by the Jehanabad Police administration and dereliction of duty. The SP was suspended because he failed to act after getting a tip of a possible attack. “The district police had the prior information of the naxals’ plan but they failed to take action on time,” Bihar governor said.

Bihar Home Secretary H.C. Sirohi said B.S. Meena, the police chief of Rohtas district, will be the new SP of Jehanabad. Sirohi said IG (Operations) R.R. Verma had at 3 p.m.(IST) on Sunday informed IG (central zone) A.S. Nimbran and SP Jehanabad about a possible attack by the extremists. But it seems that no action was taken, he said. Meanwhile, upset with the Bihar administration for failing to repulse the Maoist attack in Jehanabad, the Union Home Ministry asked the state to inquire why intelligence warning of an attack was not acted upon. The Ministry is keen to find out why Ajay Kanu, CPI (Maoist) area commander and a central committee member who was among those freed during the raid, was shifted to Jehanabad from Beur Jail a few weeks ago. The Bihar administration has been asked to explain who authorized the shift and why.
Posted by:Fred

#1  By any measure, Bihar is a failed state - remove it (and parts of UP) and all of India's demographic indicators would shoot up.

There is a joke in India about a Japanese delegation that visited Bihar. They were amazed at the vast mineral wealth (coal, Iron ore etc) and potential cheap labor for manufacturing (many tens of millions of workers).
"We can help turn Bihar into another Japan in 10 years" they said.
The Chief Minister, Laloo Yadav replied "So what? Give me Japan and I will turn it into Bihar in 10 months"
Another joke has Pakistan begging for Kashmir. The Indian PM responds "we will give you Kashmir, but you have to also take Bihar"
"No thank you" says Musharraf.

Posted by: john   2005-11-16 15:42  

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