Dr. Paresh Saxena

Assistant Inspector General (Inspection) Dr Paresh Saxena, a 1994-batch IPS officer widely known for his professional integrity and achievements, gave Bihar's leading politicians goose bumps when he served a legal notice on Urban Development minister Bhola Singh of the BJP as a precursor to a defamation suit.A deeply upset Saxena, a medical doctor by training, wants an apology from the minister for the insulting remarks Bhola Singh made about Saxena at a public ceremony in Gaya in September.
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In his speech, Singh obliquely but viciously reprimanded Saxena, then the SP of Naxalite-affected Gaya district, apparently because the officer did not come up to the podium to garland him.
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Although Singh did not name any official in his speech, his outburst, much of which appeared verbatim in local newspapers, is clearly against Saxena.
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Parts of his outburst indirectly cast aspersions on Saxena as a leader of the district police force.
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AIG Paresh Saxena
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According to a highly confidential five-page supervision report prepared by Saxena and submitted to the Home Department in September, a copy of which is with TEHELKA, investigating officers did not try to nab any Naxalites, interrogate Chaudhary or conduct even the most cursory of investigations into Chaudhary's role in Rajesh Kumar's murder.
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It states that Saxena discovered evidence that revealed that Chaudhary had strong links with Naxalites and used them to further his political objectives.
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As SP of Gaya, Saxena had cracked down on Naxalite violence and focused on identifying and snapping the mutually beneficial links between Naxalites and politicians.
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As his legal notice mentions, only five days before Bhola Singh's outburst, Saxena had reprimanded a DSP at a police meeting for failure to take action as per the law against one Dhanraj Singh, a close aide of the Speaker, whose motorcycle was found to have been used by a band of Naxalites who gunned down six policemen in Imamganj in August.
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Saxena's supervision report also mentions that Chaudhary had met him personally in Gaya on 1 June 2008 and tried to convince Saxena that the slain former MP was first linked to, and later opposed by two outlawed insurgent groups in the district.
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Saxena has a history of confrontations with the ruling party's politicians due to his refusal to countenance criminal elements, regardless of their political links and influence.He fell out of favour with the Rabri Devi government after he attached the properties of RJD legislator Prahlad Yadav in 2000 for the blatant support and refuge he gave to Prahlad's brother, who was wanted in a murder case.

The IPS officers' fraternity in Bihar seems content to take things lying down.Although Saxena now refuses to speak, sources in the police headquarters said he remains unwavering about the defamation suit despite his seniors trying to coax him into dropping the idea.While, as per regulations, he had sought permission from DGP DN Gautam and from principal home secretary Afzal Amanullah before serving the legal notice on the minister, he received no reply to his letters.A section of the IPS officers in Bihar sees streaks of departmental indiscipline in Saxena's moves.
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The notice was sent on October 26 and on December 26, the mandatory 60-day waiting period before Saxena can file a defamation suit will have expired.