IAS, IPS officers prematurely retired in public interest: Govt

NEW DELHI, Apr 12:
A few IAS and IPS officers were given premature retirement in public interest due to their poor performance, Union Minister Jitendra Singh today said.
M N Vijaykumar, a 1981-batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre, has been imposed a penalty of compulsory retirement and another bureaucrat K Narasimha was given premature retirement in public interest, he told Lok Sabha in a written reply.
With regard to the IPS officers, the Ministry of Home Affairs has informed that two officers–Raj Kumar Dewangan and Mayank Sheel Chohan–have been prematurely retired, said Singh, Minister of State for Personnel.
Chohan is a 1998-batch IAS officer of union territories cadre and Dewangan (1992 batch) is from Chhattisgarh cadre.
In another reply, the Minister said 19 IAS and five IPS officers have been arrested in past four years (from 2014 upto March 2017) across the country for their alleged involvement in various wrong doings.
Of the IAS officers arrested, three were from Rajasthan cadre, two each from Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and union territories cadre, and one each from Gujarat, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Maharashtra and Telangana.
Among the IPS officers, one each were from Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Tripura. (PTI)

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