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Mumbai: IPS officer suspended over Ghatkopar hoarding collapse
Updated On: 26 June, 2024 07:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Faizan Khan
Home dept cites report that found violations during his stint as rail police chief
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The hoarding had collapsed on May 13, killing 17 people
Quaiser Khalid, a 1997 batch IPS officer, has been suspended by the state home department in connection with the May 13 Ghatkopar hoarding collapse, which claimed 17 lives. The home department issued a detailed order stating that the suspension was initiated based on a report submitted by the director general of police on May 21. The report found gross irregularities and administrative lapses in sanctioning the hoarding during Khalid’s tenure as commissioner of railway police, Mumbai.
The order states that the Maharashtra government has decided to “initiate disciplinary proceedings against Shri. Md. Quaiser Khalid, IPS (MH: 1997), Additional Director General of PCR, Maharashtra State the then CP, Railways, Mumbai in respect of administrative lapses and irregularities in sanctioning the hoarding, on his own, without approval of the DGP office and in respect of the misusage of powers by allowing massive hoarding size of 120x140 sq ft, deviating from the approved norms as pointed out in the report of Director General of Police, Maharashtra (sic).”
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