"I write, sing, shoot": Who is D Roopa? 10 things about this Karnataka cadre IPS

D Roopa (photo courtesy: Twitter)

IN 2000, D Roopa secured 43rd rank in the UPSC examinations. But she opted for IPS, not IAS. On Monday, this Karnataka cadre IPS officer was the news in prime time television as she was shunted out in less than a week after she had red-flagged alleged irregularities and corruptions for providing special treatment to high-profile jail inmate and AIADMK chief VK Sasikala. Without getting into the merits and the demerits of the case, BoI here picks out 10 things about this IPS officer:

Unease in corridors after former coal secretary HC Gupta and 2 serving IAS get 2 years jail

THERE has been an unease and anger among many a senior IAS officer in the corridors when a special court in Delhi on Monday sentenced former coal secretary and 1971 batch retired IAS HC Gupta along with two serving IAS officers — KS Kropha, 1982 batch IAS and former joint secretary in coal ministry and present Meghalaya chief secretary, and KC Samria, 1993 batch IAS and the then director in coal ministry — to two years in jail in coal block allocation during the UPA regime. “We need to seriously ponder over the impact of Harish Chandra Gupta judgement on governance in the country”, said…

IPS association bats for arrested IPS R Rajamarthandan in a unique case where the complainant is also an IPS

IPS officers’ association is miffed at the way 2006 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre — R Rajamarthandan was suspended and arrested on the charge of giving away “classified” information to an RTI applicant. The Association said, the "action taken against him (the IPS officer) is disproportionately high and harsher than the usual response in such cases”. The IPS officer, who was working as the special superintendent of police (SSP) in the CID and had also handled probe in a number of sensitive cases including much-talked about Louis Berger bribery case, was charged with…

Bihar government is contemplating to hand over paper leak case to CBI to appease anger of senior IAS officers

WITH IAS officers’ revolt in Bihar against the arrest of their colleague and 1987 batch IAS Sudhir Kumar getting louder every passing day, the state government has been contemplating to hand over the case to the CBI as it could appease the anger of the top bureaucrats running the state administration. The revolt of the top bureaucrats in the state was palpable after the IAS officers decided not to take any verbal instructions from any higher office, including the office of the chief minister. And then on Sunday, about 50 IAS officers were seen…

Bihar IAS Sudhir Kumar arrested in a paper leak scam; IAS Association slams arrest, calls Kumar “honest and sincere”

BIHAR branch of IAS Officer’s Association has said, it is “deeply angered and anguished” at the late-night arrest of 1987 batch IAS and chairman of Bihar Staff Selection Commission Sudhir Kumar, demanding that the case be transferred to the CBI for the sake of justice, independence and fair play. Kumar was arrested on Friday at Hazaribagh in neighbouring Jharkhand by the state-government-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with a case of…

Retired IAS and former coal secretary HC Gupta who refused to engage lawyers gets bail

IN AUGUST last year, former coal secretary Harish Chandra Gupta who was in jail in corruption cases related to allocation of coal blocks, became almost a hero when the IAS Association and senior IAS officers openly vouched for his honesty, further adding that if Gupta could go to jail, most of the other IAS should also be behind bars. His IAS batch mate of 1971 batch and former chief election commissioner Dr SY Quraishi went a step further, terming Gupta as one of the most honest officers “who lived like a sadhu”. On Tuesday morning, Gupta was…