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Vikram Kumar Saathiri (Government Servant)     22 August 2024

Service matter

Sir/Madam

My colleague,  during his routine course of inspections, has noticed that an unauthorized person's name had been manually entered onto the authorization document as well as the EPOS device, issued to run a fair price shop. The alteration on EPOS Device was made using the digital key of the controlling officer.

My colleague immediately brought this matter to the attention of higher officials in writing about the forgery and misuse of digital key and requested that criminal action be taken against both the fair price shop dealer and the unauthorized person. Alternatively, he requested permission to file the criminal case by himself.

However no action has been taken against the dealer and the unauthorized person, and the higher officials have merely corrected the names on the authorization and deleted the unauthorized person's name from the EPOS device.

Given the severity of this incident, I am requesting clarification on whether my colleague can file a criminal case against the dealer and the unauthorized person, despite the lack of  permission from the department.

please clarify



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T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate)     22 August 2024

It is not the duty of your colleague to report this matter to police.

His duty ends after reporting to his higher officer who is competent to initiate suitable acts and measures to prevent recurrence.

Your colleague has to obtain permission from his higher officer and if not granted then he cannot dare to bypass his superior officer.

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Vikram Kumar Saathiri (Government Servant)     23 August 2024

Kalai Selvan garu thank you for your reply. I'll convey this to my colleague. Any other solution for this Sir

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate)     23 August 2024

You are welcome for your appreciations. 

You may please inform him to mind his own business and not to get into trouble by interfering in others matters


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