MP’s dismissed IAS officer threatened self immolation before PMO
BHOPAL: “I want to say very categorically that I am being persecuted and hounded only because I happen to be a Dalit,” Ramesh Thete told PTI on phone from Jabalpur.
1993-batch IAS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre today threatened self immolation before the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) if he was not reinstated by February 5.
Thete claims to be going through a lot of torture just because his job had not been given back and hence has decided take this extreme step.
He was dismissed from service after the Principal of a technical institute here had complained against him of demanding Rs one lakh bribe in February 2002, said Ramesh.
The matter of his reinstatement had been also repeatedly sent to the Law Ministry which had earlier cleared him of the charges.
