PULWAMA, JUNE 15. District Administration today suspended Chief Animal Husbandry Officer (CAHO) Pulwama, for dereliction of duties and mismanagement of a COVID care centre situated in the district headquarter.
M Hussain Wani, designated as Nodal Officer of the facility, and who was previously also issued warnings for laxity on his part was found absconding and saunauthorized absent from the district HQ yesterday during informed visit of the District Magistrate.
The laxity in duties was observed despite some of the primary contacts lodged in the CCC tested positive for COVID -19.
The delinquent Officer has been attached with immediate effect with the office of ADM Pulwama and FIR has been directed to be lodged u/s 188 IPC & 51 of Disaster Management Act, 2005.