Bhubaneswar, June 28: Inspector General of Police(IGP) Ashish Singh has reported to his office from June 28, said Director General of Police(DGP), Odisha Arun Kumar Sarangi on Friday.
Refuting the media reports on the unauthorised leave of the IGP Sarangi said Singh resumed his office after his leave. He had participated in a significant meeting on intelligence on that day.
However, clearing the confusion on the Home Department to the DG office, Sarangi said that intimation regarding Singh’s report in his office was uploaded in the Special Intelligence Wing(SIW) wire which was not passed on to the Home Department owing to some technical glithes.
With Senior IPS officer Ashish Kumar Singh’s unauthorised absence in his office after end of his sanctioned leave, Odisha Home Department on Thursday wrote a letter to the Director General of Police.
The letter read, the IPS officer had neither informed the department regarding extension of his leave nor he resumed his office yet, the Home department of Odisha government has sought information about him from the DGP.
In the letter to the DGP on Thursday, Muralidhar Mallik, OSD-cum-Additional Secretary, Home Department, said Singh was allowed leave for a month on health grounds from May 4.
“More than one month has passed but the department is yet to receive any communication on this matter. It is, therefore, requested to kindly furnish above information to this department for further necessary action,” read the letter.
Worth mentioning, the Election Commission of India (ECI) had earlier directed Singh to appear before a medical board constituted by doctors of AIIMS-Bhubaneswar, to report the health conditions of Singh, who was on a medical leave.
