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| There is more to Drabu's ouster than what meets the eye | | IB submits detailed report about him to Centre | | Bharat bhushan
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sep 1: There is something more in Haseeb Drabu's abrupt removal in what meets the eye. Intelligence Bureau (IB), the country's premier investigating agency, has prepared a detailed report about the former J&K Bank chairman and submitted it to the Centre.
Official sources, familiar with the developments that culminated into his unceremonious removal, said the IB report, and not the political vendetta, had become the basis for his ouster. When contacted, IB sources in Kashmir and Delhi told The Early Times that the findings in the report on Drabu were of very "serious" nature.
Sources, however, refused to share the details, saying the leakage of even an iota of the "confidential" report could lead to the hampering of further investigation into the case.
After the IB top brass in Delhi submitted the report to the central government, the latter apprised chief minister Omar Abdullah of its contents and asked him to shut the bank doors on the chairman forthwith, the sources added.
On August 26, Omar asked Drabu to put in his papers. A day later, he resigned.
"There is more to the problem than meets the eye," the sources asserted.
While asking him to quit, the chief minister had said that he was involved in "grave" irregularities in the bank.
Sources said the government was contemplating to make public the details of the "Irregualrities" committed by Drabu and his alleged involvement in other matters of serious nature.
Asked if there was something which could have an impact on the state's ongoing development sources preferred not to say even a word on it.
Sources, however, said the chief minister himself was expected to address the media in this regard. It was also mandatory on Omar's part to tell people of the state what sort of alleged grave irregularities Drabu had committed and who the beneficiaries were.
It also becomes imperative on his part to tell people how did Drabu breach the rules, or indulge in "grave" irregularities, or how had his acts affected the bank functioning, and its profitability?
It, however, does not take more than a little bit of common sense to realise that before making allegations public against Drabu, Omar would have been armed with enough evidence to substantiate his claims.
Drabu was appointed as the bank chairman by Mufti Mohammad Syed when he was chief minister in 2005. |
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