Delhi Police chief BS Bassi on Friday said that “it doesn’t matter” to him if he was not being considered for the post of information commissioner. Bassi will retire from his post at the end of this month.
The government dropped his name from the list of potential candidates for the top post at Central Information Commission (CIC).
The opposition led by the Congress has strongly objected to the government’s move to include Bassi in the list of candidates being considered for the post.
In fact, the Congress has been demanding his removal as Delhi Police commissioner over the alleged mishandling of JNU protests and violent incidents that followed.
The Delhi Police faced some flak for slapping sedition charges against Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Kanhaiya Kumar.
The force has also been criticised for the violence in the Patiala House Court on Monday and Wednesday when some slogan-shouting lawyers attacked JNU students and journalists.
Kanhaiya Kumar was also assaulted in the court even as Bassi has consistently denied this.
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