Whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka to be transferred on Central deputation

NEW DELHI: In a relief to embattled whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka, the Civil Services Board approved his request for a central deputation. According to Times Now, Khemka was approved for the deputation after the PMO intervened.

The Cabinet Secretary had recommended to the PMO that Khemka be transferred on central deputation, reported Times Now. Khemka is now awaiting posting orders from the central government, the channel said.

The state government had recently forwarded Khemka's application in this regard to the Union government. He had made the request on March 15.



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The 1991-batch IAS officer had antagonized the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government by cancelling the mutation of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deal with realty giant DLF in 2012. In 2013 the state government had chargesheeted him for "wrongly" cancelling the mutation of the deal, apart from ordering various inquiries against him in different cases.

In 2012 Sanjiv Chaturvedi, another whistleblower officer from the Haryana cadre, had gone on central deputation despite the state government's efforts to stop him. The Centre had had to intervene when the Haryana government did not relieve him to join as deputy secretary of AIIMS in Delhi. The IFS officer had exposed various irregularities in the state forest department from 2007 to 2010.

(With inputs from TNN)