SHIMLA: Former principal advisor to the Himachal Pradesh government, Deepak Sanan demanded registration of FIRs against government officials in the case of him being charges heeted during the previous Congress regime.On May 22, the BJP government passed a fresh order conceding that rules, instructions and facts of the case showed that the allegations levelled against Sanan were unfounded. It also admitted that the case had not been handled properly by personnel department in the past.Deepak Sanan, in a written representation to chief secretary Vineet Chawdhry, demanded initiation of disciplinary proceedings and registration of criminal cases against then SP Vigilance, Dharamashala, Bimal Gupta, then IG Vigilance A P Singh, then ADGP Vigilance Prithvi Raj, then chief secretaries P Mitra and V C Pharka and then additional chief secretary (personnel) Tarun Shridhar. He accused these officials of malafide functioning.On July 26, 2013, he was served a chargesheet under the AIS conduct rules in which it was alleged that he had exceeded his competence and acted in violation of the law while discharging his duties as principal secretary (revenue) to the state government.“My reply to this chargesheet, given on August 3, 2013, clearly established that the allegations against me were not borne out by relevant rules, orders and facts pertaining to the matter. The revenue department also attested to the fact that my actions were within my competence,” he said.According to him, on August 25, 2015, the Government of India passed a detailed speaking order denying the state government’s request to accord sanction to prosecute him. “The order listed all the facts and circumstances that I made available to the state government and vigilance department when they initiated action against me,” he said. Despite this, he said, his repeated requests to the government to drop disciplinary and criminal proceedings against him were ignored.“On August 3, 2016, in the case of Gopal Chand, a state government officer facing prosecution on exactly the same grounds as my case, the state government withdrew prosecution sanction taking the plea that the Central government had denied sanction to prosecute me. However, my representation to be treated on the same footing was ignored,” he claimed.

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