Grammy winner Ricky Kej pays tribute to IAS DK Ravi; Court asks CID not to publish report

GRAMMY-award winner Ricky Kej who came into limelight for his album “Winds of Samsara” has paid a moving tribute to 2009 batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer DK Ravi by dedicating a heart-touching Kannada song that in English means – Fill every heart with new colours. Kej’s tribute apart, it was an eventful Sunday as the Karnataka high court ordered the CID not to publish any interim report on its inquiry into the mysterious death of Ravi who was found hanging at his Bengaluru residence a week ago. The order is significant, as parts of the CID report were leaked to a section of media which published reports linking Ravi with a woman batch-mate of his belonging to the same cadre. It was reported that the woman IAS, who is married, told…

More about Patna Municipal Commissioner Kuldip Narayan, his proposal of rail ticket auction, other “fuzzy thoughts”

Kuldip Narayan: "A simple person in wilderness"

THE Patna High Court on Monday stayed the suspension of 2005 batch IAS Kuldip Narayan as Patna Municipal Commissioner, giving relief to the officer known in his circle as honest and the one who took on the city’s builders lobby. Though the officer was suspended for his inability to spend allocated fund for two consecutive financial years, it was highly suspected that he became the victim of the powerful political-builders nexus. As the case is on, with the High Court asking the state government to submit papers related to the case on Tuesday, BoI here attempts to know the officer more: how he proposed auctioning of cinema and railway tickets (like spectrum) and how he openly criticised the...

Why Hyderabad High Court expresses displeasure over IAS officers’ attitude?

A DIVISIONAL bench of the Hyderabad High Court has expressed displeasure over the attitude of IAS officers for not implementing the court’s order. The bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sen Gupta and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar on Thursday pulled up an IAS officer named…

How Supreme Court’s Tuesday judgement makes CBI director the most powerful bureaucrat

CENTRAL government officers holding the rank of joint secretaries and above can now be probed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) without taking prior government permission, Supreme Court said on Tuesday in a landmark judgement that will in many ways make CBI director, an IPS officer, more powerful than cabinet secretary, the top Indian bureaucrat, a post reserved for IAS cadres. A five-judge constitutional bench ruled in favour of striking down…

Govt servants may sometime be allowed to return excess payment in ‘suitable installments’: Office Memo

ANY wrongful or excess payments made to a government servant must be recovered, barring a few exceptions of extreme hardships, the government said in an office memorandum (OM) dated February 6. The concerned employee may, however, be allowed to refund the money in suitable installments with the approval of secretary in the ministry in consultation with…

Delhi High Court asks govt to empanel 1977 batch IAS Rakesh Behari as secretary

Rakesh Behari, a 1977 batch IAS officer and Managing Director of Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation, would have retired by the end of the month without getting the rank of a Union secretary. But now, Delhi High Court has directed the government to…

Does CBI compulsorily need Centre's nod to probe a JS? Madras HC says "no"

WHAT we all know is that if an official at the rank of a joint secretary and above is to be investigated, prior permission from the Centre is required. The sheer number of pending requests of investigating agencies mainly of the CBI will also tell you how difficult it is to get such an approval. But a Madras High Court judgement pronounced on April 29, 2013 by a bench comprising Justice R Banumathi and Justice K Ravichandrabaabu said investigating agencies don’t need to wait for permission as the provision in Section 6A of the Delhi Special Police Establishment (DSPE) Act, 1946, is only “directory, not mandatory, in nature”. Here are excerpts of the judgement:

Writing IAS (Rtd) in letterhead by former IAS an impropriety, not offence: HC

IS THE use of titles like IAS, IFS, IRS etc. after retirement of an officer “highly irregular” and “quite unbecoming” that it attracts section 170 of the Indian Penal Code for which the punishment could be a two-year jail term. Here are interesting observations by two benches of Kerala High Court, latest one comprising…