Two IPS Officers, Missing From Work for 12 Years, Forced to Resign by Govt

New Delhi: Two Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, who have been missing from work for than 12 years, have been forced to resign by the Union government. One of them is even wanted in a fake encounter case.

Deemed resignation of Jyoti Belur, an IPS officer of 2003 batch of Uttarakhand cadre, was accepted by the Union government after her parent state recommended action.

To add to Belur's woes, a Ghaziabad court has re-issued a non-bailable warrant against her in the 1996 Bhojpur encounter case.

The court also found four of Belur's fellow police personnel guilty of killing four labourers in cold blood and showing the murder as an encounter of 'dreaded gangsters'.

Belur has been missing from service without any notice since 2005 and the Union Home Ministry has now acted against her.

"As per All India Service Rule 7(2) a, if you are missing from service for more than a year, it is considered a deemed resignation. Her deemed resignation was accepted when state government pointed it out to the MHA," a Home Ministry official told CNN-News18.

A special CBI court of Ghaziabad, on Monday held four policemen guilty in the Bhojpur encounter case in which four people — Jasveer (23), Jalaluddin (20), Ashok (17) and Parvesh (17), all labourers — were gunned down. The post mortem had showed that Belur's service revolver was used to kill Jasbeer. Belur was then posted as the CO of the Modinagar thana, where the encounter happened.

However, she allegedly fled to the United Kingdom and did not answer repeated court summons.

"Her resignation is deemed to be accepted from 2005 and she will not get any retirement benefits," said an MHA officer.

The MHA has also acted against another IPS officer of 1991 Maharashtra cadre who has been missing from service since 2005.

Marie Lu Fernandes had opposed action against her by pleading with the government that she is pursuing PhD in the United States and hence be allowed to be absent from work.

The Union Home Ministry accepted her deemed resignation on February 3.

If the two officers had not been missing from service they would have been I-G rank as of today.