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Clean chit to Former GMC Principal in 'vandalism case', influential sitting on report

8/16/2017
Early Times Report  

JAMMU, Aug 16: Former Principal Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Jammu who was accused of vandalizing the Principal's Office and brandishing revolver to terrorize staff on March 16, 2017 has again been given a clean chit by a probe committee the inquiry committee reported.
Meanwhile it is alleged that some influential officials within the ministry and department are sitting on committee report finalized on April 17, 2017 and they do not want the report to come out of the cold storage.
According to report (a copy in hand with Early Times) submitted by high level inquiry committee the panel of committee came to conclusion on the basis of cross examining of the so called eyewitnesses and also analyzing CCTV footage besides official records as the accused has claimed that he was not present in Jammu on the mentioned by the complainant (the incumbent principal) as the allegations completely mismatching with statements as mentioned in complaint.

Complaint not justified
The enquiry committee, therefore concluded the enquiry by submitting that the allegations that Dr Zahid had put his revolver on the table of the principal, ransacked the Principal's room and forcibly made the employees to work under his instruction is not proved and thus the complaint lodged by Dr Sunanda is not justified.
Here it needs to mention that on March 17, 2017, Dr Zahid had been suspended over the allegations of gross indiscipline, misconduct and disobedience of Govt. order no 138-HME of 2017 and present incumbent in her complaint alleged that on March 16, she (Dr SunandaI arrived at the office at 9 AM and received a Phone call that former is sitting in the PMC' office, she saw Dr Gillani's pistol lying on the table beside the room ransacked as the bouquets and decoration were lying scattered on the floor and the chairs were in a distorted manner, following which concerned ministry has constituted a committee comprising Dr Saleem-ur-Rehman, Director Health Services, Kashmir, Nasir Ahmed, Additional Secretary Health and Medical Education Department and Zahoor Ahmed, Director Finance has been constituted by the government to look into the alleged unbecoming conduct of the former Principal.
In the report which was submitted by the committee on dated 17-04-2017 in the department states that the office of the Principal, GMC Jammu received the Order no 138- HME of 2017 dated 13-3-2017 on March 15th, 2017 which is evident from the receipt register (copy of which enclosed herewith) and Dr Zahid Geelani was not available in the office on 15 march 2017.
Dr Zahid in his reply has mentioned that he had gone the office of the Principal GMC Jammu on 16 March 2017,  handing over the charge of the Principal. The written statement submitted by Dr Sunanda doesn't corroborate with her verbal statement given before the enquiry committee to the extent that the entire office was allegedly defunct with telephone wires being removed, interest faculty cut off, her personal files with her personal documents left by her in PMC office on March 15, 2017 were missing.
It further states that the allegation of the complainant that there was ransacking in the office Chambers of the PMC Jammu is not proved either from the statements of the officers/ officials who were present there or from the CCTV footage. The statements of Anil and Deepak cannot be relied upon as the statement given by them seem to be concocted, tutored, fabricated, because of the reason that both the employees could not justify their statements and were not near to the occurrence of the incident i.e.. Principal's room/ table and have seen the incident by peeping in through corner of the door which is insignificant to be taken into account and has not been established in the CCTV footage.
The allegation of keeping revolver on the table, ransacking of Principal's room and forcibly making the employees to work under the instructions of Dr. Zahid cannot be proved either from the CCTV footage or statements of witnesses. That using the chair of Principal on 16th of March and making the round in the hospital and asking for attendance register of employees in the Library Department is Inappropriate as Dr. Geelani had stated that he just wanted to handover the charge on 16th March 2017 to Dr. Sunanda.
The enquiry committee, therefore concluded the enquiry by submitting that the allegations that Dr Zahid had put his revolver on the table of the principal, ransacked the Principal's room and forcibly made the employees to work under his instruction is not proved and thus the complaint lodged by Dr Sunanda is not justified.
However, in-spite of being aware of his transfer from the post of the PMC Dr Zahid's sitting on the chair of the Principal on 16 March after receiving the information of his transfer was inappropriate. Incumbent Principal has not tried to contact former telephonically or personally to inform him about the assumption of charge on 14 March or even after that which again is not a healthy sign of effective administration.


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