In an unprecedented move, President Pratibha Patil came to the aid of a whistleblower officer of the Haryana government, ordering it to drop a chargesheet filed against him.
The state information commission also held the chargesheet against him wrong and ordered the state government to pay him damages of Rs 10,000.
Even the inquiry committee comprising the wildlife inspector general and a senior official of the environment and forests ministry held that officer Chaturvedi has been indicted for upholding the law and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh asked the state government to scrap the chargesheet.
The state government, however, remained adamant that ultimately compelled the President to use her authority for quashing the chargesheet.
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