Bhubaneswar: Excise Commissioner Narasingha Bhol has dismissed ASI Auropalak Das, and Constables Trilochan Raicheti and R Venkatesh Kumar from service for their involvement in illegal escorting of the Ganja loaded truck and facilitating transportation of Ganja.
The trio was arrested by Pottangi police on September 18, 2022 and booked under Section 20 (b) (ii) C/ 29 of NDPS Act, 1985. Being member of the uniformed service, instead of curbing illegal Narcotics business, they were involved in illegally escorting the Ganja loaded truck, the Excise Commissionerate stated.
The Excise Commissioner being the cadre controlling authority relating to appointment, posting, transfer, promotion including overall cadre management. “It is reasonably not practicable to hold inquiry against them, so they were dismissed from service in public interest in accordance with Rule 311 (2) (b) of Constitution of India,” the press note issued by the Excise Commissionerate stated.
The process of dismissing/ removing corrupt/ inefficient and undesirable members of the Excise Department will continue in order to improve the efficiency of the Excise Department. Stringent action will continue to be taken against Government servants of the Department, who indulge in activities pre-judicial to public interest, it added.
