Major crackdown by Modi government: S K Srivastava among 12 otherasked to retired


On June 11, 2019, the Government under the financial ministry ofNirmalaSitharamanasked Income Tax Commissioner S K Srivastava to voluntarily take up retirement along with few other 12 high profile members of the IT department.

S K Srivastava was one of the prime accused in several cases involving fraud, extortion and forging, corruption, sexual harassment and much more. He was also accused of sexually harassing two women officers of the Revenue Service.

This groundbreaking action enforced by the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government was a strong step towards eliminating corruption and cleaning up the system. By implementing this strict action, the government has sent a strong message indicating – no matter how high profile post a government official holds, if he is corrupt then he will be dismissed.

Besides S K Srivastava, the list also included Ashok Agarwal, Joint Commissioner of IT who was under CBI’s scanner on corruption allegations and was suspended from 1999 to 2014. Alok Kumar Mitra, Chander Saini Bharti, AndasuRavindar, Vivek Batra, SwetabhSuman and Ram Kumar Bhargava are a few other names that were on the list.

Narendra Modi-led NDA government probed all these officers to retire on the grounds of the following rules:

-          56(j) of Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 which clearly says that “the performance of a government official who has turned 50 or 55 or has completed 30 years of service (whichever is earlier,) is being reviewed to ascertain if he/she is liable for compulsory retirement.”

This rule to punish government servant for their underperformance or force them to accept voluntary retirement was revised immediately after the Modi Government came to power in May 2014 for the very first time. 

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