{"id":308,"date":"2011-01-27T23:27:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cimforest.in\/?p=308"},"modified":"2024-10-11T14:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T13:17:26","slug":"promotion-of-tainted-prakash-thosare-ifs-to-apccf-by-manipulating-reports-records-and-dpc-with-the-help-of-joint-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Promotion of tainted Prakash Thosare IFS to APCCF by manipulating reports, records and DPC with the help of Joint Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Departmental Screening Committee ( DPC) for the posts of Head of the Forest Force, Maharashtra; Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, and Additional Chief Conservator of Forests was conducted on 20th<\/sup> July 2009 under the chairmanship of JP. Dange, Chief Secretary, MS.<\/p>\n

As per note sheet of DPC dated 27-7-09<\/strong><\/a>, for out of two vacancies of APCCF, the DPC has selected (recommended) only one officer viz, S.K. Khetrapal. For the second post, \u00a0name of only P. J. Thosare \u00a0was considered. But since his ACR for the year 2005-06 were very adverse, it was found that he can not be promoted to the post of APCCF till his adverse remarks in ACR are expunged. Hence it was decided not to consider case of any other CCF in seniority though it was required to be considered as per law. It was decided in DPC to expunge the adverse ACR of Thosare for the year 2005-06 in the year 2010. Thus, though it was required under law to consider the case of other officer in the seniority by DPC, but it was not done. Later on, adverse remarks in ACR of the year 2005-06 of Prakash Thosare \u00a0was expunged by Government order dated 26-10-2009 <\/strong>i.e almost three months after the DPC dated 20-7-2009. No one else was considered till this ACR was expunged.<\/p>\n

Thus, against all provisions of AIS (CR) Rules<\/strong><\/a> and AIS (PA) Rules<\/strong><\/a>, Prakash Thosare\u2019s adverse remarks were expunged from ACR. After cleaning his ACR , it was decided to hold DPC again for the APCCF post for Thosare alone. The Principal Secretary, \u00a0Bhupati Prasad Pandey asked for the date for DPC from the office of the Chief Secretary, but it was informed to him on 30-10-2009 that Chief Secretary wants the DPC to be done only after new government takes the oath. ( I do not know which new government they were talking about in year 2009).<\/p>\n

Later , a date was given by Chief Secretary for DPC to be held on 26-11-2009. But J.P. Dange has again postponed the DPC<\/a> date without informing the new date of DPC. It is pertinent to note here that for the DPC of APCCF, a representative of the rank of Chief Secretary from MOEF, New Delhi is required to be there as member of the committee. Hence to inform him about the next\u00a0 date of DPC\u00a0 minimum 15 days time is required to be given to him. Hence on 11-1-2010 a note was put up to Principal Secretary Forests, BP Pande<\/strong><\/a> . When this was submitted to Chief Secretary again had not given any date for the DPC.<\/p>\n

ROLE OF PRADEEP KUMAR<\/strong>, IFS Joint Secretary :<\/p>\n

On <\/a>23-4-2010, Pradeep Kumar, Joint Secretary<\/a> had submitted a mischievous note<\/strong> to ACS Forests, BP Pande mentioning that as per the directions given by\u00a0 Chief Secretary during the DPC dated 20th<\/sup> July 2009, that while considering the name of Prakash Thosare, his\u00a0 involvement must be checked in the land matter of Pune district in which, Hon\u2019ble Supreme court has appointed an SIT. Since JP Dange was Forest Secretary before becoming Chief Secretary, Maharashtra, he was aware of that there was strong reason to believe about involvement of Prakash Thosare in land matters of Pune (violations of Forest conservation act for alleged monetary gains) . Further, it was necessary since at the relevant time Thosare was working as Chief Conservator\u00a0 of Forests, Pune. The reason for this belief was based on Thosare giving a clean chit to the then\u00a0 DCF Pune in Ritchi Rich and Ajmera cases of ill repute.<\/p>\n

Pradeep Kumar deliberately, not mentioned<\/strong> in the note that SIT was appointed by Hon\u2019ble Supreme court <\/strong>in ill famous Ritchi Rich Society case<\/strong>, wherein CEC has recommended to the Chief Secretary, Maharashtra to take deterrent action against Prakash Thosare<\/a> , who was the then Chief Conservator of Forests , Pune. Needless to mention\u00a0 that in its final report to the Supreme court, CEC has recommended prosecution against senior officers of the Forest and Revenue department. Thus, though\u00a0 Prakash Thosare is to face serious case of corruption, \u00a0prosecution & departmental enquiry in case of Ritchi Rich Society, this was not mentioned in the note submitted by Pradeep Kumar on\u00a0 23-4-2010<\/strong>. On the contrary,\u00a0 to dilute the case of Thosare, he mentioned in the note that there was only one case against Ashok Khadse for violation of conservation act for the period \u00a0when Khadse was DCF Junnar. And for this, a minor penalty <\/strong>charge sheet has been given to Khadse. Thus, according to Pradeep Kumar, only in this minor penalty case involvement of Thosare\u00a0 & Asthana should be ascertained from HOFF, Nagpur. And accordingly, Government has called a report on involvement of Thosare & Asthana in this minor penalty case and left the actual case of Major penalty, in which, action was directed by the CEC against Thosare<\/strong>. And it was this case, which chief secretary has directed to report upon and not\u00a0 the minor penalty one. ( Thus you can see how Joint Secretaries play with facts leading to extremely bad and mischievous decisions).<\/p>\n

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An honest but very inefficient HOFF , CS Joshi,\u00a0 vide his letter no. Desk-9\/IFS\/DE\/CR28\/143 2010-11 dated 18-5-2010<\/a> had <\/strong>not given clean chit to Thosare, <\/strong>when he was asked to give comment on role of Thosare\u00a0 & Asthana.<\/strong> He informed government that there are lots of discrepancies in the behaviour and conduct of Thosare. Hence Government should call explanation directly and consider further action.<\/p>\n

When HOFF did not give his clearance to Thosare, then BP Pande , ACF Forests had initiated a note on 1-6-2010<\/a> <\/strong>mentioning that if departmental enquiry is not in progress then promotion can not be stopped and sealed cover procedure can be adopted in the matter. Hence in the DPC of 16-6-2010, claims of\u00a0 Prakash Thosare, Shirish Asthana & Tasneem Ahamad were considered. But since a charge sheet was already issued to Shirish Asthana, his integrity certificate was not issued. BP Pande IAS must explain why it took more than one year to put a note that sealed cover procedure is required to be adopted in this case<\/strong> that too when HOFF declined to give clean chit to Thosare.<\/strong> Was he\u00a0 so inefficient Secretary Forests or was it his mischief ? ( Money can make you do any thing in Mumbai Secretariat).<\/p>\n

It is to remind our readers\u00a0 that DE is always done for\u00a0 misconduct, and integrity can not be clubbed with it. If an officer slaps his boss, DE can be started against him. But in such matter or because of DE in such cases\u00a0 can delinquent officer’s integrity\u00a0 be withheld ? Thus, withholding of Asthana’s integrity can only be explained by\u00a0 Pradeep Kumar and BP Pande.<\/p>\n

Finally, on 16-6-2010 DPC cleared promotion of Thosare. On 18-6-2010 Pradeep Kumar proposed Thosare to be posted to APCCF (HR) and SWH Naqvi as Director Social Forestry. JP dange approved it on 19-6-2010. File duly approved by Chief Minster<\/a> came back to ACS on 16-7-2010 and then orders were issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Departmental Screening Committee ( DPC) for the posts of Head of the Forest Force, Maharashtra; Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, and Additional Chief Conservator of Forests was conducted on 20th July 2009 under the chairmanship of JP. Dange, Chief Secretary, MS. As per note sheet of DPC dated 27-7-09, for out of two vacancies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimforest.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}