DC suspends Punam Malik while SC stays her arrest

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, October 5

Adopting a tough stand against Punam Malik, a former personal assistant (PA) of Mohammed Shayin, a former Deputy Commissioner (DC)-cum-Estate Officer, the present Deputy Commissioner, Dr SB Deepak Kumar, has placed her under suspension.

The suspension orders were issued on October 1, the day on which she got an interim stay on her arrest in the missing file case from the Supreme Court. The stay orders were passed by Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice SA Bobde.

She was asked to cooperate with the investigating agency.

Malik had approached the Supreme Court after her bail application was rejected by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

On the other hand, citing the case registered at the Sector 19 police station, the DC stated that since her bail application was dismissed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on September 15, she was placed under suspension while appointed as senior assistant in the Marketing Board, Chandigarh.

Interestingly, Shayin had filed an affidavit with the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) stating that his PA had no link with the missing file. In the affidavit filed on September 10 last, he had stated that she was posted on deputation with the State Agricultural Marketing Board in January 2015. “During the course of hearing, the files were called from the dealing superintendent concerned, who brought the file and took it back,” the then DC had stated.

Malik was earlier dismissed from job, had got stay from HC

In May last, Deputy Commissioner Dr SB Deepak Kumar had terminated the services of Punam Malik, a former PA of former DC-cum-Estate Officer Mohammad Shayin, from the UT Administration. The DC had claimed that the orders were passed after the UT Vigilance Department found in its probe that Malik’s appointment in the UT Administration was against the rules. But she had got the stay against termination of her services from the High Court on July 28.