Friends,

I got thru a slightly old India Today Article (dated March 12, 2007) titled “Indian Part-time Service” by Sri Sanjay Kumar Jha which began with the following- “Shunted postings are prompting IPS officers to channelise their energy and expertise in the areas of their interest. Some are writing books, some are engaged in NGO activities, while others have turned playback singers."
The Article mentions the name of IPS officers of Bihar Cadre viz., Sri Manoje Nath, Arvind Pandey, Gupteshwar Pandey, Abhayanand and Ajay Kumar Verma. In the beginning I would like to state that the word “shunted” did amuse me. We so often use this word for describing officers who are placed in positions of so-called less socio-political relevance, where their role and contribution to the mainstream gets naturally diminished. But why the word “shunted”. As per the Oxford dictionary and Thesaurus, shunt (as a verb) means to diverge or cause (a train) to be diverted to another track and as a Noun means the act or an instance of shunting on to a siding.
Thus each one of these officers are like those trains who have been moved or diverted to some other track from the regular one on which they were supposed to be kept. At least this is what would emerge from the dictionary meaning of the word.
Of these 5 IPS officers, I would specially mention Sri Ajay Kumar Verma who has been facing so-called hardships for years because of his iconoclastic views and non-conforming nature.
Of the various facts that I came to know about this 1985 batch IPS officer are-
1. Mr Verma is considered to be an upright officer and thus has to undergo the jitters of being posted at a ‘low profile' place.
2. As SP (Vigilance) he made it to the headlines when he unearthed a scam regarding the appointment of lecturers.
3. In another case, criminal cognizance was taken against five top IAS officials on Mr Verma's investigation.
4. Mr Verma was not paid his salary for four years at a stretch, starting from June 1, 1998 to March 2002 for some such reasons which he fought successfully in the Court..
5. Mr Verma have demanded for a "Property Declaration Act" to be introduced. Under the demand they want all officers who are legible to move on election duty should declare their assets in public, along the same lines as politicians.
6. Presently Mr Verma is fighting for a cause. He is ready to challenge the Bihar police act 2007 saying it “bad in law and not sustainable, as it is an attempt to overstep the SC order”,

Thus here we have a person who has been facing all odds with great aplomb and has been treading his own path completely away from all kinds of allurements.
One can very well say that there are very few of his kind.

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526

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Comment by anand bhushan on August 4, 2012 at 7:47am

i disagree with Mr. prit bihar ji when he says Mr. Verma is dishonest. i called him once in the night when i was being charged Rs. 30 at Patna Junction, even though i had just gone there to drop my son and had not parked my car. i didn't even tell him that i was an advocate and was retired from judiciary. he just rushed alone and caught hold of the person who was trying to over-charge. then he called the Inspector, Patna GRP Alok Kumar Singh and asked him to register a FIR on my complaint, making the DCM Danapur as well as CCM Hajipur also co-accused persons, for their collusion with the offence. i panicked and left. but cam to learn that Mr. Verma persisted unless the fee collection was shifted to the exit points of the respective parkings. Rs 30 was to be charged from ONLY premium parking users and Rs. 10 from the rest of parking lot. No parking charge was to be collected from the users of the free pathway... and this system continues even till date due to his effort, as DIG Rail.

sometimes later, i was forced to meet him, when a friend of mine had been informed of his impending arrest by the GRP Gaya. his arrest had been ordered by the IG Railways, Bihar [the superior of Mr. Verma] for the offence that a person committed suicide when he was unable to marry his daughter.

Mr. Verma immediately supervised the case and stayed the operation of the Arrest Orders, till the IG, Rail Bihar again confirmed the arrest orders, after reading his supervision. my friend remains free till date.

once a person came to me for obtaining anticipatory bail from the Patna High Court, which was issued against him for a murder case relating to Bihpur Police Station. when i learnt that it related to railways, i asked him to meet Mr. Verma once, and he told me that Mr. Verma immediately supervised the case himself and exonerated him, when he found that he had no role in the murder. i asked him if he had to bribe Mr. Verma, and he said Mr. Verma is a saintly person, who in fact paid for his snacks from his pocket.

calling such a person as dishonest is bad and Mr. Prit bihar singh has done great disservice for the people of bihar by labeling Mr. Verma as corrupt. in fact by not promoting him and promoting his juniors to the rank of IG, the Government of Bihar under Nitish has exposed itself that it is no different from the Jungle regime of Lalu.

i treat meeting Mr. Verma as the best thing that could have happened to me. when ever i meet him, i find him full of enthusiasm and energy. he is always occupied in something useful to the society and is never grudging his denial of promotion.

his house itself indicates his complete honesty. i wish Mr. Nitish Kumar would understand that denial of promotion to Mr. Verma is sufficient to damage his image in the eyes of the understanding people of Bihar..

Comment by ajit sarthi on August 4, 2012 at 5:42am

Mr. Prit bihar singh must be the ONLY person to find Mr. Ajoy Verma as corrupt. i don't about his experience of Mr. Verma, but i found him to be nice and prompt when i met him as DIG Railways. he immediately responded and took the right decision. 

i even found one old lady praying for him in the Hanuman Temple near railway station, and was curious to know about why she was doing that. she told me that her son was implicated in a false case by his departmental bosses in Motihari and Mr. Verma had given justice to her son in 5 minutes. 

i was personally informed by a police officer to meet Mr. Verma, when i had certain problems and was planning to meet IG Railways. Mr. Verma took hardly 2 minutes to respond and to my satisfaction.

i feel that he is not corrupt and is an asset to Bihar.

Comment by Prit bihar singh on June 12, 2011 at 12:18am

He is one of most corrupt Police guy of Bihar.

He should be suspended to mis-use his post

Comment by Prit bihar singh on June 12, 2011 at 12:15am

Mr. Ajoy Verma is no great person. He is same corrupt person as other Police wala. He might have been reached to the level of IPS but he still mis-use his post to save criminals and harass the innocents.

 

Comment by ajaymalloc on February 22, 2009 at 2:12pm
Yes.. you are right.Thanks for your kind word.
Trying my best to carry forward this valuable gift (honesty) of my father. I would like to quote one of his line which he always says after seeing me going good. "Baap ka poot Sipahi ka ghoda; Nahi kuchh toe toda thoda".
Comment by Amitabh Thakur on February 22, 2009 at 11:14am
Ajay bhai,

Going thru your words was like a totally new experience. Yes, there are people like your father who might not have earned money but do get an unstated admiration and honour in the eyes of the people.
I hope you will take your father's ideals to further heights.

Amitabh thakur
Comment by ajaymalloc on February 21, 2009 at 10:35pm
My father has been a CLERK and not any IAS or IPS officer for this life in Bihar Govt and retired ultimately from Ranchi. I loved this blog stating such a hard fact. Injustice with honest persons ia across all the bench. Thank GOD there is at least a system of powerful Judiciary in our country, which saves such honest and non tiring social fighter.

I have been hearing this Shunted word from my child that was synonymous to the punishment against those honest officers who tried to stand against the bad system and politics.

I remember the days when my father was victimised with the charges of robbery that occurred inside his office in front of so many persons, where a cash of just 45000 was looted. The robbers had beaten my father badly because he tried to save the cash by throwing the keys of the locker outside the office window and also had a fight with 6 such heinous criminals loaded with guns. Ultimately he saved 2.5 lakhs and just 45000 was looted. He lost his sense in that fight and then only robbers managed to flee away with that cash. Yet in place of awarding him, the office administration tried to blame him for robbery. They did not have any evidence to suspend him, but the bad office politics did not pay him his salary almost for three year. My whole family had gone through such a bad phase that we did not have money even to buy food. Ultimately my father was forced to sacrifice his salary for the robbery amount. May father, an ever honest man and a man of principals, fought against this in the court and finally Satyamev Jayate!!.

Keep sharing these hard fact. Keeps us awake.

Warm Regards,
Ajay Prakash

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