NEW DELHI, Feb 1: Enforcement Directorate officer Rajeshwar Singh has been granted voluntary retirement from service by the Union Government. He is expected to join the BJP and contest the upcoming Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.
Singh, who was serving as the joint director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Lucknow so far, tweeted to announce that he was ‘hanging up his boots’.
Today, my request for voluntary retirement (VRS) from the service of the Government of India has been approved. The caravan of 24 years of tireless and conscientious hard work, carried out in a relentless manner, has reached a point of transition today, he stated in a letter attached with the Twitter post on Monday night.
The officer began his civil service career with the Uttar Pradesh Police, where he served for about 10 years while the rest were in the ED, a federal probe agency that investigates money laundering and foreign exchange violation crimes.
“As my professional journey of 24 years turns to a transition today, on this occasion, I express my deep seated gratitude to the Hon PM Shri @narendramodi ji, Hon HM Shri @AmitShah ji and FM Smt @nsitharaman ji, CM Shri @myogiadityanath ji, Shri S K Mishra, Director ED and Uttar Pradesh Police. I have learned a lot while working with these organizations for so many years,” he wrote.
“I join the PM’s mission to make India a Vishwa Guru, as a participant, to contribute with conviction and integrity in this process of nation-building,” he further stated.
Rajeshwar Singh met ED Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra and other senior officers at the headquarters of the agency here on Tuesday. The officer had applied for VRS late last year.
Sources said he may contest the Uttar Pradesh polls on a BJP ticket from Sultanpur, his ancestral district.
A B.Tech and PhD in police, human rights and social justice, Singh joined the ED in 2007 on deputation.
He was permanently absorbed into the ED cadre in 2014 and he headed some high-profile investigations into the 2G spectrum allocation case, the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the money laundering cases against former Union finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, the Aircel Maxis and VVIP choppers case.
Assets worth about Rs 4,000 crore were attached in his probes.
I am deeply satisfied that despite various threats and pressure tactics from unscrupulously corrupt leaders, my courage to do my job without bowing down has been appreciated time and again by the Honourable Supreme Court, he stated. (PTI)
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