Denied medal, Tejdeep storms into CS chamber

Hyderabad: There was high drama at the Secretariat late on Tuesday evening after additional director general of police Tejdeep Kaur Menon barged into the chambers of chief secretary Pankaj Dwivedi and sought to know why her name had been deleted from the list of police officers recommended for the award of Indian Police Medal (IPM) by the state government.
This was after a meeting of the recommendations committee earlier in the evening that decided to hold her name back as there was an inquiry against her by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for her actions in the legal metrology department a few years back. The committee chaired by Pankaj Dwivedi had director general of police Dinesh Reddy, principal secretary, general administration department , Ajay Mishra among others. Reddy, whose police department had put up the names however said at the meeting that there were no records to suggest that an inquiry had ever been instituted against Tejdeep. Dwivedi clearly on the back-foot after being confronted by the impulsive Tejdeep asked for detailed records to check whether the lady cop’s name was there on the list of those being investigated by the ACB.
Tejdeep’s missive comes in what is the latest of the IPS complaint against Dwivedi. Although no police officer has mustered courage to confront the chief secretary, there is a disquiet in the IPS ranks for the perceived step-motherly treatment by the civil bureaucracy. Cops are miffed as the IPS officers have not been getting timely promotions while IAS officers are not denied the same. Although the IPS lobby has a perpetual grouse at the treatment meted out to them by the IAS lobby, they feel that they are getting a raw deal under the present dispensation. When contacted, Tejdeep sought to downplay the incident: “Yes I had called on the chief secretary. Our meeting was cordial and the chief secretary was very kind. He told me that my citation for the award had come late and so my case was not taken up,” she told TOI.