Tejdeep Episode: Rift Widens Between IPS, IAS

Amidst high drama and passions late on Tuesday evening at the Secretariat, additional director general of police Tejdeep Kaur Menon barged into the chambers of chief secretary Pankaj Dwivedi. She wanted to know why her name had been deleted from the list of police officers recommended for the award of Indian Police Medal (IPM) by the state government.

Earlier her name was held back by the recommendations committee in a meeting chaired by Pankaj Dwivedi as there was an inquiry against her by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for her actions in the legal metrology department a few years back. Though the state police chief DGP Dinesh Reddy had said at the meeting that there was no record whatsoever to suggest that an inquiry had ever been instituted against Tejdeep, yet her name was not forwarded. Now the CS, confronted by Tejdeep has called for detailed records to check whether the lady cop's name was there on the list of those being investigated by the ACB.

This isn't the first instance of IPS complaint against Pankaj Dwivedi. There is a disquiet in the IPS ranks for the perceived stepmotherly treatment by the civil bureaucracy. Cops are miffed as the IPS officers have not been getting timely promotions while IAS officers are not denied the same. The IPS lobby has a perpetual grouse at the treatment meted out to them by the IAS lobby, they feel that they are getting a raw deal under the present dispensation. However, when asked, Tejdeep downplayed the incident, "Yes I had called on the chief secretary. Our meeting was cordial and the chief secretary was very kind. He told me that my citation for the award had come late and so my case was not taken up," she told.