Administration in doldrums
The two incidents concerning a senior official in the PMO and another in the Crime Investigation Department (CID) are completely unrelated. In one incident an official has been sent to retirement prematurely and in the other an ill fated official, who was to go on retirement in 16 months' time, ended up in jail in a bribe offering case. But there are some similarities between the two exposing the inadequacies in our administrative system. Both the officers had survived the purge that the present government initiated since taking power. Both of them were promoted, one in quite meteoric speed, by the same government. Both of them, though in different perspectives, held sensitive positions till falling from grace. But they met inglorious exits with dubious allegations.
The government versions of the incidents have raised more questions than the clarifications that they are supposed to offer.
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