The Dhanbad Administration, in a report, has come down heavily on the district police for their high handedness in forcing soft coke kiln factories to remain shut citing ‘Covid-19 guidelines’. In the report prepared by a team headed by an IAS rank officer, it said the temporary ban due to the coronavirus pandemic was over and that no other permission was required to run a factory.
Calling the police action ‘misuse of power and violation of duty for personal gains’, the report said the police went beyond their jurisdiction to register an FIR against a factory owner for ‘spreading pollution’ and kept various other factory owners in trepidation.
