IG Sreelekha lodges complaint against Thachankary

April 29, 2010


Thiruvananthapuram: IG Sreelekha Thursday lodged a complaint against suspended IG Tomin J. Thachankary accusing him of dragging her name by levelling baseless allegations against her in foreign trip issue.

In a complaint submitted to the IPS Officers Association she says that Thachankary consciously brought her name because of personal grudge and demands action against him. Earlier Aluva Rural SP T. Vikram had filed a similar complaint to the DGP against Thachankary.

Last week Thachankary, who was removed as Kannur IG after he went abroad without permission, had filed a complaint before the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), claiming that six IAS and IPS officers had gone on foreign trips like him in the past.

He alleged the government had subjected him to "hostile discrimination", applied different yardsticks for identical allegations and adopted "selective suspension" in his case. According to him, IAS officers P C Sanal Kumar, T Jaythilak and Ishita Roy and IPS officers Sreelekha, T Vikram, Jay Prakash had all gone abroad without the state government’s permission.

Sanal Kumar, who was on leave from June-July 2006, had gone to the US and accepted hospitality of foreign organisations, he said, adding Kumar then undertook studies without government permission.

Thachankary had alleged that Sreelekha, who proceeded to Thailand without permission, had caused a loss of Rs 67,349 to the state exchequer. The government accepted her assurance that she would follow all rules while going on trips abroad and had dropped disciplinary proceedings against her.