Kiran Bedi rejoins office

New Delhi, Aug 3 (UNI) Super cop Kiran Bedi today resumed duty following a ''fruitful meeting'' with Home Minister Shivraj Patil yesterday.

''I am on duty. I love to work and hate wasting even a single moment,'' said a beaming Ms Bedi, who had gone to Home Ministry for some meeting.

Ms Bedi had earlier applied for three months 'leave' to protest against her being sidelined for the post of Delhi Police Commissioner.

Though refusing to divulge details of her one-to-one meeting with the Home Minister, Ms Bedi said she was satisfied after the meeting which had been ''frank and useful''.

About whether she has been given assurance of any better assignment in future by the Home Minister, the Director General Bureau of Police Research and Development said in an enigmatic style, ''I know only about the present. I don't know why whatever happened in the past happened and similarly don't know what will happen in future.'' Asked whether her fiery cop image was behind her being sidelined for the post of the top cop slot, Ms Bedi said, ''I don't know about it. I am like this only. Had I not been like this, may be you people would have said that she was just an ordinary person so she should not be given the job.'' Ms Bedi, whose name was among the two sent for Delhi Police's top job, while expressing disgust and dismay over being superseded by Mr Y S Dadwal despite being two years senior to him, had called the move unfair and demoralising to the force.

Regarding her not getting any Police Medal till now unlike other senior officials of the national capital, the Magsaysay award winner said, ''I have got enough recognition and acclaim at various level.

In fact, today I have come for the meeting here to select police officials for award only.'' UNI