drunken police on escort duty angers the minister and is suspended

CHANDIGARH: Consuming liquor while on pilot duty turned out to be sordid affair for three policemen of Rohtak after they invited the ire of public health minister Kiran Choudhary on Sunday night. Rohtak SP Vivek Sharma has suspended ASI Surender Kumar and constables Tej Pal and Vijander Singh while ordering departmental inquiries against the three. The incident took place when Kiran Choudhary was on way to New Delhi from Bhiwani. The three policemen were deployed on escort duty with Choudhary’s cavalcade from Kalnaur to Rohtak. The cops did join the cavalcade but their vehicle went out of control and gave a tough time to the minister’s cavalcade. After covering some distance, the minister asked the escort to stop and informed Rohtak SP after she found the three policemen drunk. Interestingly, the errant cops went elusive instead of reporting back at Kalanaur police station after SP Vivek Sharma made an abortive attempt to contact them on their wireless sets and mobile phones. They however reported at the police station in the wee hours of Monday. Acting on the directions of SP, the three were placed under suspension and were sent for medical examination to ascertain the extent of alcohol consumed by them. “All the three have been placed under suspension after preliminary investigations indicted them for dereliction of duty and consumption of liquor. A DSP has been requested to carry out a routine investigation. The three will be stationed at police lines throughout the course of the proceedings, according to Rohtak police officials. ASI suspended for causing commotion in civil hospital The assistant sub-inspector (ASI), posted in Baldev Nagar, was suspended on Monday by the deputy commissioner of police (DCP) of Ambala after he was charged with causing a commotion in the civil hospital late on Saturday night. The misbehaving ASI, Kushal Pal Rana, was charged with going on the rampage and intimidating the medical and paramedical staff who were working on Saturday night in the civil hospital.