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| Shah Faesal, 2010 IAS topper, earns Centre’s wrath over 'Rapistan' tweet, but gets defended by Omar Abdullah | | | Agencies
Srinagar: Shah Faesal, the 2010 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) exam topper, stirred a massive controversy when he posted what he described as a "sarcastic tweet against rape-culture in south Asia". The IAS officer faces disciplinary action for his social media post about frequent rapes. However, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah has defended him.Taking to Twitter, the National Conference leader said it looks like the Department of Personnel and Trainings (DoPT) is determined to chase Shah Faesal out of the civil services.Referring to the notice issued to Faesal by the General Administration Department, Abdullah said, “The last line of this page is shocking & unacceptable where they question Faesal’s ‘integrity & honesty’. How is a sarcastic tweet dishonest? How does it make him corrupt?”Replying to a tweet, Abdullah further said: "You have no problem when officers from Rajasthan and elsewhere defy 'set norms of governance and conduct', yet Faesal's tweet about rape bothers you. Somehow this does not surprise me at all!”The former J&K CM also tweeted that he saw this notice as a case of “bureaucratic over-enthusiasm where people who are pushing the files at the top do not understand the spirit of the times we are living in.”The Jammu and Kashmir’s General Administration Department served a notice to Faesal after the DoPT asked the state to initiate action against Faesal.Faesal, at present, is pursuing a post-graduate course at the Harvard University in the United States.Defending his tweet, Faesal had said that he agreed that the government employees could be “hauled” in case they criticise the government policy. However, in this case, if one thinks that “rape is part of government policy only then you can take action against me which I believe it is not,” added the officer.Calling a ban on freedom of speech and expression as “totally unacceptable", Faesal said it was time to understand that government employees are part of a society only and cannot “stay completely detached from the moral questions”.He had earlier described the rules stopping civil servants from raising their voice on issues related to the society and government in India as monarchical and called for their immediate review. |
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