Ranchi, July 28: Chief minister Raghubar Das came down heavily on government servants at today's edition of his monthly Seedhi Baat interaction with citizens, asking them to perform or take up voluntary retirement.

The chief minister's scathing words seemed particularly aimed at Ranchi's senior superintendent of police Prabhat Kumar and deputy commissioner Manoj Kumar.

" Majak karne yehan nahin baithe hain. Naukri karna hai to achhe se naukri karein, nahin to VRS le kar jayen. Janta ke paise se salary milti hai, aur unhi ko daura rahein hain (We are not here for fun. If you want to do your job, do it well or opt for voluntary retirement scheme. You get your salary from people's money but force people to run from pillar to post)," Das thundered amid pin-drop silence at the third floor hall of Jan Samvad Kendra in Suchana Bhavan, where the event was held.

Today's Seedhi Baat took up at least two long-drawn cases where the police had acted up. In both, the poignant stories of the survivors - bereaved parents in one and a young widow and two children in another - prompted the chief minister to order fresh probes.

One related to a Class X girl, Vidisha Roy (14), who was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her hostel room of Hi Q International Academy, Bariatu in Ranchi, in September 2013. The girl's bereaved parents Vikas and Jaba Roy, who run a pathology centre in Chatra, were personally present at Jan Samvad to speak with the chief minister.

The girl's post-mortem report showed strangulation marks and signs that she had been sexually assaulted, but no investigation on those lines was done, the father said.

"The suicide appeared to be a frame-up job," he said.

Recently, the anguished parents had even written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking for permission for self-immolation as they feel their murdered daughter had not got justice.

The chief minister immediately ordered a fresh probe into the schoolgirl's death. Since no officers of 2013 are now posted in Bariatu, the CID would now investigate the case.

The case of Dolly Shahdeo, whose husband Ashok Nath Shahdeo was murdered in June 2014 allegedly by the land mafia also served as an example of how the masses bore the brunt of lawlessness in the state.

Widow Dolly, again present at Jan Samvad Kendra with her two-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, alleged Ranchi police had not arrested one of the main criminals, Raju Gope, though he was seen regularly in Tupudana.

"My father-in-law (Lal Bhanu Pratap Nath Shahdeo) and elder brother-in-law were also killed due to a land dispute. After my husband got killed last year, no male adult members are alive at home. Being a housewife, it is getting extremely difficult for me to even send my children to school, but the murderers of my husband are roaming free," the woman sobbed.

Ranchi SSP Prabhat Kumar told the chief minister that they had already arrested two in the case, one Genda Singh and another Mithu Gope, but Raju Gope was absconding.

"But, Raju was regularly seen in Balsiring area, where he was in some land dealing business," Dolly claimed in her reply.

The chief minister suggested the case be taken up by Special Investigation Team (SIT) recently launched by the state to look into matters related to land disputes related to tribal and non-tribal citizens.

But, the chief minister's VRS jibe came in the wake of his interactions with Ranchi DC and SSP about a Chanho resident, Birendra Thakur, who was allegedly beaten up by PDS dealers on May 21 when he dared to complain about shortfall in foodgrain.

Thakur had complained that only 28kg of foodgrain - against the mandatory 35kg - had been given by the PDS dealers of Chanho, B.P. Sahu and his sons Vinay and Sunil. Sahu and his sons allegedly thrashed Thakur.

Though a case was lodged at Chanho thana, Ranchi district administration allegedly did not act efficiently.

During today's Seedhi Baat programme, 30 cases were taken up from 10am to over 11pm. These three apart, many related to transformer glitches and problems in PDS delivery.

Also present at the event were CM's secretary Sunil Kumar Burnwal, revenue and land reforms secretary K.K. Soan, rural development secretary N.N. Sinha, JUVNL managing director Rahul Kumar Purwar and HRD secretary Aradhana Patnaik.