Nazrul pens 2 books, takes on Didi

Her Dishonesty  once again is a compilation of Nazrul’s experience as a police officer working under Mamata Banerjee in different capacities.

As the title suggests, Nazrul has written about a series of his personal experiences while working under Mamata — once while she was the railway minister and again when Nazrul was called back to West Bengal after she became the Chief Minister. Nazrul was allegedly neglected and ignored till his retirement.

In one of the chapters in Her Dishonesty Nazrul has described how Mamata had reportedly ordered Nazrul to carry out some inquiries about a top police official on deputation in the railway ministry and named in some corruption cases. Mamata allegedly overlooked the official procedures and the recommendations made on the basis of the findings of the inquiry. Instead of “dismissing” the officer, he was given a reprieve by “an illegal release order “allegedly at the behest of the Mamata, then the railway minister, Nazrul writes.

“In other words the officer was illegally, and may be for extraneous considerations, released without the consent of the appropriate authority,” said Nazrul. In this connexion CBI director Ranjit Sinha’s name has also come up at places, said Nazrul while talking to The Indian Express.

In the other book, he has compared the Left regime with Mamata’s government under whom “honest and sincere IPS officers have been humiliated and harassed and often made a subject of ridicule”. The corrupt, the inefficient in the rank and file have flourished, he writes, which was dangerous in two aspects —- one, it impacted the democracy and two, it destroyed the Rule of Law.

Nazrul retired from service in February 28, this year after a running battle with Mamata for what he said was a deprivation of legitimate dues in terms of respect and dignity in service. Apart from taking to writing, Nazrul has also moved the court on several issues against the state government and its bureaucracy. A section of the bureaucrats in the government however, describe Nazrul’s crusade as a one that was largely driven by his own “self-interests.”

Farooq Ahmed, editor at Udar Akash, a magazine that deals with Muslim issues, described the two books as yet another bold step by Nazrul to expose the rot within and at the highest places. “During his service in the IPS, he remained a whistleblower. And now in his retired life, Nazrul has again taken up his fight,” said Ahmed. “His uncompromising stand is commendable,” he added.