IRS-IT officer Anup Kumar Dubey appointed as OSD in Enforcement Directorate; List of 3 more appointments

A 1989 batch IRS-IT officer, Anup Kumar Dubey, has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on a deputation. Also, 2008 batch IRS-IT officer, Anand Swaroop, has been appointed as director in Rajasthan State Insurance and Provident Fund Department, also on deputation. In another development, Susheel Khajuria, 2007 batch…

IT'S HISTORIC: IRS-IT officer Sanjay Kumar Mishra becomes interim ED chief

ON SATURDAY, a history was made when an Indian Revenue Service (IRS-IT) officer, Sanjay Kumar Mishra, was made in-charge of Enforcement Directorate, a financial investigation agency that comes under the department of revenue. The ED, which came into existence way back in 1956 -- first as an “enforcement unit” -- was always headed by an IAS till 2016 when IPS Karnal Singh was made its director. Now Sanjay Kumar Mishra will be the first Income-Tax officer to head the agency though technically, he will be an…

2 IRS-IT officers appointed as joint director, special director in ED

TWO Indian Revenue Service - Income Tax (IRS-IT) officers -- Nikhil Kumar Govila and Vivek R Wadekar -- have been appointed in Enforcement Directorate (ED). Whereas Govila has been appointed as Joint Director of Enforcement, Delhi, on deputation basis, Wadekar will be…

Simanchala Dash, IRS officer and former PS to Finance Minister, appointed in ED as Principal Special Director

Simanchala Dash, 1988 batch IRS-IT officer and former private secretary of finance minister Arun Jaitley, has been appointed as Principal Special Director of Enforcement, Delhi in Level 15 of the Pay Matrix as per the 7th CPC, on deputation basis. He will get a tenure of two years. The ACC on Wednesday approved his appointment based on the recommendation of the Selection Committee. This post — Principal Special Director— is a new post being…

6 new joint secretaries appointed; government also appoints a full-time ED after 2 years

THE Central government on Wednesday night released an order of appointing six joint secretaries after being approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. These new JS include two Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officers, and one each from IAS, IPS, IRS-IT and Indian Ordnance Factory Service. Meanwhile, the ACC has also approved the appointment of acting Enforcement Director and 1984 batch AGMUT cadre IPS Karnal Singh as full-time ED till August 31, 2017, i.e. the date of his retirement. Here is the full list of all these appointments:

No Full-time ED Since Aug 2014: IPS Karnal Singh continues to be acting ED for 6 more months

Enforcement Director (ED), a key post at the helm of investigating high-valued money laundering cases in India, will continue to be assigned to an officer on a part-time basis. The government in an order issued on Wednesday said, 1984 batch UT cadre IPS Karnal Singh will continue to be acting ED for six more months beginning Feb 19, 2016, or until the appointment of a regular incumbent. Thus in effect, Singh, who was…

Removal of Rajan S Katoch as Enforcement Director and beyond

THE government on Wednesday night removed Rajan S Katoch, 1979 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS, as Enforcement Director (ED) and appointed 1984 batch UT cadre IPS officer Karnal Singh, now a special director in the directorate as the acting ED for three months or until further order. The removal of Katoch, who has been holding the additional charge as ED since July 2014 in addition to discharging his duty as union heavy industries secretary, is already due, but in all probability, the order of his removal was expedited after…

Nitish Thakur: The Maha babu who owns two dozen properties, a Land Rover, a Mercedes and more

THE Enforcement Directorate’s Mumbai arm on Wednesday attached properties and bank fixed deposits worth Rs 56 crore in a money laundering case against Nitish Thakur, former deputy collector of Maharashtra Housing Area Development Authority (Mhada). This is in addition to last year’s ED attachment of assets worth Rs 53.57 crore from this state administrative service officer. Read more about this official who owns  two dozen bungalows and flats in Mumbai, and used to drive a Land Rover and a Mercedes.

Know Your Babu: How Rajan S Katoch, now heavy industry secretary, gave a public face to ED

Rajan S Katoch, 1979 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS and the bureaucrat who gave a public face to the hitherto secretive agency Enforcement Directorate is now secretary of the department of heavy industry. For the next six months, he will continue to be Enforcement Director (ED) in addition to his new role as secretary. BoI here picks out a few innovative things that Katoch had experimented with as ED:

ED links anti-corruption crusader VS Pandey with Hasan Ali case; Shunglu, Lyngdoh in core team of Pandey’s IRI

MAYAWATI government might have distanced itself by immediately removing principal secretary (information) and 1979 batch IAS Vijay Shankar Pandey in the wake of Enforcement Directorate’s possible probe on his alleged linkage with Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, but this process of investigation is likely to damage the reputation of an anti-corruption group called India Rejuvenation Initiative in which Pandey has been actively involved.

According to reports, Pandey and Puducherry Lt Governor Iqbal Singh could be summoned by the ED in connection with the passport procured by Hasan Ali who reportedly evaded an income tax of over Rs 70,000 crore. The ED is also probing possible money laundering by Hasan Ali.

Pandey is known to be an honest officer and was one of the first civil servants to publicly declare his assets one and half years ago. Pandey is a key driver of anti-corruption group India Rejuvenation Initiative in which several eminent civil servants including former CAG VK Shunglu, former chief election commissioner JM Lyngdoh, and former Planning Commission secretary Dr NC Saxena are executive members. Significantly, Shunglu is now probing the Commonwealth Games scam and Saxena is a member of UPA chairwoman Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council.

Who are bureaucrats named by Hasan Ali?

DID Hawala operator Hasan Ali name a few bureaucrats during his interrogation by Enforcement Directorate? If a section of media reports are to be believed, Ali named four bureaucrats who are believed to be connected to Adarsh housing scam too.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra’s opposition parties have slammed the ruling coalition for suspending the DCP Ashok Deshbhratar who had earlier interrogated Ali in a fake passport case. The Opposition believed that the DCP who videotaped the interrogation was suspended because he knew too much about the entire episode. Ali who was recently interrogated by ED director and 1977 batch IAS Arun Mathur, reportedly named former chief ministers too for whom Ali laundered money. Ali’s tax liability as per the assessment of I-T department is at the tune of Rs 75,243 crore.

In another issue, former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi has recently threatened to name officials who asked for bribes to hush up his case. Three weeks ago, when Regional Passport Office in Mumbai revoked his passport, Modi tweeted from London, “Mere allegations, investigation agencies have come up with zilch, but all asking for bribes to hush up case, when I said no, passport cancelled.”

Canada’s Public Service Commission cautions bureaucrats on social media

Canada’s Public Service Commission has warned bureaucrats against using social media like Facebook and Twitter as their partisan comments risk tainting Canadians’ perceptions of the impartiality of the federal public service, Vancouver Sun reported. There are now debates on how such exposure would risk the non-partisanship of the public servants. The Commission also called for a code of conduct for ministerial staff and improved training.
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