STOP PROBING MURDER LIKE MOBILE THEFT CASE: CM’S SECY TO POLICE

RANCHI: The secretary to the chief minister pulled up police officials over slow probe into two cases while addressing complaints received on the ‘Jansamvad’ portal on Tuesday and asked them to submit reports soon.

“Stop probing a murder like a mobile theft,” secretary Sunil Kumar Burnwal told a police official for tardy investigation into the murder of Alam Anasari, a man from Phoolbhanga village in Sahibgunj district, on July 13 this year.

Burnwal snubbed another police official for saying that the mobile location of a 19-yearold woman, missing from Balialigunj village in Pakur for the last three months, had not been traced.

Addressing a complaint that a hand pump had not been fixed to a bore well dug four months ago at an upgraded primary school at Rakuwa village in Ramgarh, Burnwal asked the nodal officer to send names of officials, staff and the contractor responsible.

On non-replacement of a burnt transformer at Simirita village in Ramgarh for the last six months, the secretary asked jansamvad kendra officials to route such complaints directly to Jharkhand Bidyut Vitaran Nigam Limited secretary Rahul Purwar.

On complaints about illegal mining in Giridih, the secretary to the chief ministerasked the department’s secretary to initiate proceedings against the deputy secretary.

Bur nwal sought to know the deputy secretary, accused of irregularities, has not been suspended.

He told officials to take seriously complaints about old-age pensions, land mutation and disputes, high-handedness of anagnabari sevikas and grants under Indira Awas.

The secretary to the chief minister, who reviewed around 20 complaints, directed information and technology department officials to organise a workshop for block development officers to acquaint them with online functioning.