By Our Correspondent
KEONJHAR/BHUBANESWAR: Call it double trouble for Keonjhar Collector. With tension gripped over violence during Ramnavami celebrations, an arrest warrant issued by National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) against Collector Ashish Thakre, has put the entire district administration in hurry.
The move came after District Collector Ashish Thakre failed to appear for the commission’s hearing in the State Capital on April 4. Following this, the panel issued the arrest warrant against the Collector and directed the DGP to arrest the Collector by 11 am of April 13.
The NCST has also asked Odisha DGP Sunil Bansal to arrest the errant Collector and produce him before the Commission’s office in New Delhi. The Commission had been serving summons to the bureaucrat to attend hearing on numerous occasions since June 2021. But the Collector has not responded to any of them.
