Haryana reinstates police officer suspended after Dera violence

Panchkula, October 08: The Haryana government on Saturday reinstated IPS officer Ashok Kumar, who was suspended following large-scale violence in Panchkula after the conviction of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a rape case.

A state government spokesman said that the 2007-batch IPS officer has been "reinstated in service with immediate effect, subject to the final outcome of departmental proceedings pending against him".



Ashok Kumar has been posted as Commandant, 1st Battalion Haryana Armed Police, Ambala, relieving Abhishek Jorwal from the additional charge of the post.

On August 26, Mr. Kumar, the then deputy commissioner of police in Panchkula, was suspended by the Haryana government, a day after at least 35 people died in the district in violence triggered by the self-styled godman's conviction.