Delhi Police chief B S Bassi dropped from list for Information Commissioner's post


New Delhi, Feb 19, (PTI) : Delhi Police chief B S Bassi, under fire for alleged mishandling JNU row, was today dropped from the list for the post of Information Commissioner in Central Information Commission by a selection panel led by the Prime Minister which has cleared three names.

The decision to drop Bassi was taken amidst mounting pressure from Congress along with other opposition parties and civil society activists citing alleged inaction of Delhi Police as violent mob had beaten up journalists, teachers and students inside Patiala House Court complex during the hearing of JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar's case, official sources said.

Meeting the six-week deadline set by Delhi High Court to fill vacancies in the transparency watchdog, the panel met here this morning in which various names were discussed.

The meeting was attended by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge at the Prime Minister's South Block office here. Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh also attended the meeting as a special invitee.

Sources said Kharge was against Bassi's candidature, a stand made already clear by some of his party leaders. A 1977-batch IPS officer, Bassi, who is due to retire this month-end, was one of the applicants for the post of Information Commissioner. His name was shortlisted last November by a search committee headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha.

There is a vacancy of three Information Commissioners against its total strength of 10. The names of candidates for all three vacancies were decided at today's meeting,they said.

Sources said the selection panel has sent its recommendation to President Pranab Mukherjee for his assent so that final orders for their appointments can be issued.

Besides Bassi, former Secretary of Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) Shyamal K Sarkar, Anup K Pujari, the then Secretary of Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and former Information and Broadcasting Secretary Bimal Julka were also shortlisted then.

Bassi had applied for both the post of Information Commissioner and Central Information Commissioner against the government's order issued in September last. The government had in December appointed former Defence Secretary R K Mathur as head of the transparency panel. Mathur has tenure as CIC till he attains the age of 65 on November 25, 2018.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Promenade Road,Frazer Town,B'lore

    Fri, Feb 19 2016

    He is not a popular police officer of Delhi and may also lack political patronage.

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  • manoj, vamanjoor

    Fri, Feb 19 2016

    he will get padmabhushan next year like anu

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  • G Z T Kunte, Udupi

    Fri, Feb 19 2016

    Instead of Information Commissioner now he can be appointed as Photoshop & Morphing Commissioner at special service of Smruthi Irani, Amit Shah & Modi

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  • Ramakrishna A K , Mangalore

    Fri, Feb 19 2016

    At last his sin caught up with him.
    He morphed the video to show that Kanhaiah Kumar has shouted anti- India slogans. Then he allowed the Goondas disguised as Lawyers to beat of Kanhaiah and also beat genuine Lawyers. So he has to pay the price for that. But as long as Amit Shah is there Bassi will be surely rewarded in some other way for his Loyalty towards Manuvaad.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Feb 19 2016

    He can now become Governor of Manipur ...

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  • MASTHAN, DUB

    Fri, Feb 19 2016

    HE LOOKS.LIKE.WATCHMAN.

    DONT KNOW.ABCD OF POLICE.

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  • Langoolacharya., Belman/Washington,DC.

    Fri, Feb 19 2016

    He behaves like Modi's salaaaaa...fit to take care of donkey's...

    ...JH...

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  • Veerappa D N , Madikeri

    Fri, Feb 19 2016

    But he knows the A to Z of Manuvaad and Brahman-vaad as he himself is from upper caste.

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