As per Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's order, disciplinary proceedings wouod be intiated for major penalty agaisnt S Chattopadhyaya (former DGP), Inderbir Singh (then DIG Ferozepur Range), Harmandeep Singh Hans (then SSP Ferozpur)

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New Delhi, March 21Punjab Govt 

The Punjab Government has ordered state's personnel department to initiate disciplinary proceedings for officers of Punjab police and administration who were found responsible for the security breach during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit in 2022.

As per Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's order, disciplinary proceedings wouod be intiated for major penalty agaisnt S Chattopadhyaya (former DGP), Inderbir Singh (then DIG Ferozepur Range), Harmandeep Singh Hans (then SSP Ferozpur). 

The CM also ordered that explanations be called from Naresh Arora (then ADGP Law & Order), G Nageswara Rao (then ADGP Cyber Crime), Mukhvinder Singh Chhina (then IGP Patiala Range), Rakesh Agrawal (then IG Counter Intelligence-cum-ASLO and Nodal Officer), Surjeet Singh (then DIG Faridkot, now retired), and Charanjit Singh (then SSP Moga) as to why disciplinary proceedings should not be initiated against them. 

Chattopadhyaya has since retired, Inderbir Singh is posted as DIG (Admn) PAP, Phillaur, and Harmandeep Hans as AIG counter-intelligence.

Major penalty included dismissal, demotion in case of serving officials and reduction in pension in case of those retired, officials mentioned. 

The MHA on March 10 had written to the Punjab government seeking an action report against the erring officers and highlighting the reasons behind the delay.

The report was submitted on August 25 last year, but the state government had failed to take any action. The Supreme Court had ordered the inquiry after PM’s convoy was stranded for half an hour on a flyover when he was travelling by road from Bathinda airport to National Martyrs Memorial in Ferozepur on January 5, 2022.

As per the civil services rules and laws, any officer if found wanting in duty and accused of a lapse of a serious nature like breach in security of a Prime Minister, he can be dismissed from the service or can be let off by issuing of a warning. The most serious is dismissal from service. Others are demotion, withholding of one increment, withholding of all increments besides others.