Alwar police asks 9 Muslim cops to shave beards, withdraws order day later
Jaipur, Nov 22: The police in Rajasthan's Alwar district ordered nine Muslim members of the force to shave their beards, only to withdraw its instructions a day later.
The original order on Thursday said the nine policemen were asked to cut their beards so that they acted and looked unbiased .
As the news got out, on Friday Alwar Superintendent of Police Anil Paris Deshmukh withdrew his own order.
Police said they had earlier given permission to 32 Muslim personnel to sport beards. Thursday's order withdrew this permission for nine of them.
The remaining 23 policemen were allowed to continue with their beards, police said.
"Policemen should not only work in an unbiased manner but they should also look unbiased," the SP initially told reporters.
"There is a provision of the state government which allows the HoD (head of department) to permit policemen to keep beards, he said.
Under the provision, 32 policemen were given permission. The permission for nine policemen has been cancelled while for the rest of them it stands unchanged," he added.
Deshmukh had said the decision can be reconsidered and those dissatisfied with it can approach the department.
On Friday, while withdrawing the order, he said, It was an administrative order which has been withdrawn after representation from the aggrieved policemen.
The permission to sport a beard has been given, he said.
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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
