Case against 2 census staff in Thane for dereliction of duty

Police in Maharashtra's Thane district have registered a case against two government employees for allegedly derelicting their duties assigned to them for the Census 2027 operations.

Police have registered an FIR against two government employees assigned census work in Maharashtra's Thane district for alleged dereliction of duty, officials said on Wednesday.

One of them, a clerk at a school in Badlapur, had been appointed as a supervisor, while the other accused, a compounder attached to the Kulgaon-Badlapur Municipal Council office, had been designated to carry out house-listing operations for the Census 2027, they said.

''The duo failed to report to the designated office. Furthermore, even after being repeatedly contacted by higher authorities, they refused to initiate the assigned tasks and displayed a complete disinterest in participating in the national project,'' an official from Badlapur police station said.

Based on a complaint lodged by a civic official overseeing the census operations, the police registered a case against the duo on Monday under Section 223 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and relevant provisions of the Census Act.