NEW DELHI: The Election Fee has ordered the rapid suspension of seven West Bengal govt officers on the stage of assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs), for “critical misconduct,dereliction of obligation and misuse of statutory powers” in reference to the continued particular intensive revision (SIR) course of within the state.The fee has all directed the West Bengal chief secretary to make sure that disciplinary proceedings are initiated in opposition to all of the seven officers.
The officers suspended with rapid impact embrace AEROs of Samserganj meeting constituency (AC); Farakka AC; Maynaguri AC; Suti AC; Canning Purbo AC; and Debra AC.In response to sources, it was noticed that every one these officers, throughout scrutiny of instances parked for last publication in respective ACs, had cleared a number of instances regardless of non-submission of prescribed paperwork, inconsistencies in mapping and eligibility of electors and didn’t take corrective motion, thereby approving ineligible instances and misusing their statutory powers.“Utilizing its powers below Part 13CC of the RP Act 1950, the Election Fee of India has positioned below suspension 7 officers in West Bengal with rapid impact for critical misconduct, dereliction of obligation and misuse of statutory powers in reference to SIR,” EC stated in its order on Monday.The Fee, whereas ordering initiation of disciplinary proceedings in opposition to the officers by their respective cadre controlling authorities “with none delay”, stated it must be apprised on this regard.The suspended officers are Sefaur Rahaman, AERO of Samserganj AC in Murshidabad district and assistant director in agriculture division; Nitish Das, Farakka income officer and AERO for Farakka AC;Dalia Ray Choudhury, ladies improvement officer, Maynaguri and AERO of Maynaguri AC; and Murshid Alam, ADA, Suti block & AERO for Suti AC. Two AEROs had been suspended in Canning Purbo AC, particularly Satyajit Das, joint block improvement officer (BDO) and Joydeep Kundu, FEO. The seventh official acted in opposition to by EC is Debashis Biswas, joint BDO and AERO of Debra AC.
