Three Special Police Officers (SPOs) were yesterday dismissed from service for dereliction of duty and involvement in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, officials said.
The 3 SPOs — Daljeet Singh, Bali Ram and Deepak Singh — have been disengaged from service while disposing off two separate departmental enquiries initiated against them among and other officials in 2023, they said.
The officials said that Daljeet Singh and Bali Ram were arrested in a case of murder registered at the Ramgarh police station but they escaped from police custody.
They were disengaged from service for dereliction of duties, they said.
The officials said that Deepak Singh has been disengaged from service for his involvement in a case registered under relevant sections of the NDPS Act at the Samba police station.
Dereliction of duty by a police officer.
(1) Whoever, being a police officer: – (a) willfully breaches or neglects to follow any legal provision, procedure, rules, regulations applicable to members of the Police Service; or (b) without lawful reason, fails to register a First Information Report as required by Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; or (c) is found in a state of intoxication, while on duty; or (d) Malingers or feigns illness or injury or voluntarily causes hurt to himself with a view to evading duty; or (e) acts in any other manner unbecoming of a police officer, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with a fine of Rs. 5,000/- or both. (2) Whoever, being a police officer: – (a) is guilty of cowardice; or (b) abdicates duties, with service weapons, (c) uses criminal force against another police officer, or indulges in gross insubordination; or (d) engages himself or participates in any demonstration, procession or strike, or resorts to, or in any way abets any form of strike, or coerces or uses physical force to compel any authority to concede anything; or (e) is guilty of sexual harassment in the course of duty, whether towards other police personnel or any member of the public; shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with a fine of Rs. 10,000/- or both.
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