In soup, IAS officer deletes FB posts, writes clarification

MEWAT DC TOOK FB BY STORM YET AGAIN ON TUESDAY WITH A SERIES OF POSTS THAT MANY SAID WERE WRITTEN IN OBJECTIONABLE LANGUAGE

Mewat deputy commissioner Maniram Sharma doesn’t mind his language.

The 2009-batch officer, who beat hearing disability to join the civil services took Facebook by storm yet again on Tuesday with a series of posts that many said were written in objectionable language. But he hit back at his haters, only to delete his posts and issue a clarification two days later. Sharma’s posted a picture of police arresting four men for defecating in the open during a random check at Salahedi and Salamba villages. The post with the photo read: “Today I needed to teach these people a lesson and have done it in a befitting manner). These people were using their power and approach to violate rules.”

Sharma went on to write: “Ek taraf kehte hain khule mein shoch karne walon ka na namaz kubool hota hai na roza..aur dusri taraf Ramzan mein ye harkat. (They say God doesn’t accept namaz and roza of those who defecate in the open and these people are doing this during Ramzan.”

In the comments section, many people asked Sharma where he got these views about Muslim rituals of namaz and roza. They said the language he used did not suit an IAS officer.

But Sharma hit back at his haters in another post. “Eight out of 10 words I use in a sentence are abuses and I love my language. You should go and complain to the Union Public Service Commission, which selected me not just once, but thrice in 2005, 2006 and 2009,” said the IAS officer.

Finding himself in a soup over his posts, Sharma preferred deleting them sometime on Friday, and issuing a long clarification to his friends and followers.

“I meet thousands of people everyday and have never used any objectionable word while talking to them. But my writing is sharp-worded and it has been like this from past 25 years.”