{"id":302332,"date":"2018-09-07T06:37:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T06:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302332"},"modified":"2018-09-07T06:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T06:38:54","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-police-chief-sp-vaid-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-police-chief-sp-vaid-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Police chief SP Vaid removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302337 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sp-vaid-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sp-vaid-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sp-vaid-469x420.jpg 469w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sp-vaid.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/>Jammu and Kashmir police chief SP Vaid was unceremoniously removed from his post late on Thursday evening and got posted as a Transport Comissioner.\u00a0 Vaid was replaced by Dilbagh Singh, the Director General of Prisons on a temporary basis, until a regular appointment is made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The transfer of Vaid comes in the backdrop of alleged differences between the centre and the police chief after he was divested of crucial administrative powers. The release of a terrorist\u2019s father in exchange for kidnapped family members of the state&#8217;s policemen last week was also seen as trigger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SP Vaid, the 1986-batch IPS officer was appointed as a Director General of Police in December 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On September 4, state intelligence chief Abdul Gani Mir was also replaced by Dr. B Srinivas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, policemen and their relatives were kidnapped by terrorists in south Kashmir. They were set free hours after the police released around a dozen family members of terrorists,\u00a0including the father of Hizbul Mujahideen \u201ccommander\u201d Riaz Naikoo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Sources, serious differences cropped up between Vaid and Governor&#8217;s administration after the officer was divested of powers to make certain administrative decisions and authority was accorded to ADG Law and Order Munir Khan. Vaid lodged a strong protest with state government and Union Home Secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Today, the former chief took to his Twitter account and thanked God and the people of the country for their support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI\u2019m thankful to God that he gave me the opportunity to serve my people and my country. I\u2019m grateful to @JmuKmrPolice security agencies, and people of J&amp;K for their support and their faith in me. My best wishes to the new DGP\u201d, Vaid tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu and Kashmir police chief SP Vaid was unceremoniously removed from his post late on Thursday evening and got posted as a Transport Comissioner.\u00a0 Vaid was replaced by Dilbagh Singh, the Director General of Prisons on a temporary basis, until a regular appointment is made. The transfer of Vaid comes in the backdrop of alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[4815,1141,4814],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302338,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302332\/revisions\/302338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}