Ahmedabad police commissioner Shivanand Jha reserves traffic department for police discards

AHMEDABAD: If you thought traffic was the city's biggest civic problem, think again. For it seems Ahmedabad police commissioner Shivanand Jha believes it to be a junk posting.
In a recent reshuffle involving 15 police inspectors, he shunted five of them to the traffic department because he felt they had goofed up in their duties.
The five PIs given punishment transfers to the traffic department are AS Pandya (Satellite), VM Shelar (University), AR Desai (Shahpur), JB Rana (Anandnagar) and MS Sheikh (Odhav).
Pandya had shown slackness in bringing to book Amit Shah, father of Vismay Shah, who was wanted for the past nine months for misleading the police department in the BMW hit-and-run case.
Shelar was transferred due to his handling of a road rage case involving DIG Kesarisinh Bhati and his son Jaydevsinh, who had beaten up a youth, Naman Shah. Shelar had denied medical treatment to Shah for almost three hours while trying to strike a compromise between him and Bhati. Sources said that Shelar was instructed by senior officers to make efforts for a compromise but a complaint was finally lodged.
Desai mismanaged an incident that took place on the eve of Bakri Eid when VHP international president Pravin Togadiya created a scene in his police station.
Sheikh was shunted following an anonymous letter making allegations against him while Rana was punished for his inactivity in three major thefts that took place within a month in Anandnagar.

Ahmedabad police commissioner appears quite oblivious to the growing traffic woes in Ahmedabad, a city Narendra Modi wants to show-case to the world as a model of development in Gujarat. Shivanand Jha can't be using the traffic police department as a sort of a 'kala pani' for his non-performing officers.