{"id":313206,"date":"2019-06-11T04:52:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313206"},"modified":"2019-06-11T04:53:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T04:53:36","slug":"12-senior-officers-told-to-retire-amid-corruption-bribe-sex-harassment-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/12-senior-officers-told-to-retire-amid-corruption-bribe-sex-harassment-probes\/","title":{"rendered":"12 senior officers told to retire amid corruption, bribe, sex harassment probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313207 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ministry-of-finance-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/ministry-of-finance-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/ministry-of-finance.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Twelve senior government officials have been forced into compulsory retirement by the government over allegations of misconduct such as fraud, bribery, extortion and sexual harassment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Officers including Principal Commissioners, Chief Commissioner and Commissioner of Income Tax Department compulsorily retired under Rule 56 (j) of the General Financial Rules (GFRs), said sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The list includes Ashok Agarwal (IRS, 1985), Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, Homi Rajvansh (IRS, 1985), S K Srivastava (IRS, 1989), Commissioner (Appeal), Noida, BB Rajendra Prasad and B Arulappa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The other officers included in the list were Ajoy Kumar Singh, Alok Kumar Mitra, Andasu Ravindar, Chander Saini Bharti, Vivek Batra, Swetabh Suman and Ram Kumar Bhargava.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the first time the government is taking such a move against so many bureaucrats and officials accused of corruption and illegal activities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve senior government officials have been forced into compulsory retirement by the government over allegations of misconduct such as fraud, bribery, extortion and sexual harassment. Officers including Principal Commissioners, Chief Commissioner and Commissioner of Income Tax Department compulsorily retired under Rule 56 (j) of the General Financial Rules (GFRs), said sources. The list includes Ashok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11476,1526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313208,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313206\/revisions\/313208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}