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30% IPS Officers Ignore Property Disclosure as per Govt. Data : 32 Tripura IPS officers listed as defaulters; Tripura defaulter list topped by DGP Nagraj
TIWN / IndiaSpend special report by Gangadhar S Patil
30% IPS Officers Ignore Property Disclosure as per Govt. Data : 32 Tripura IPS officers listed as defaulters; Tripura defaulter list topped  by DGP Nagraj
PHOTO : DGP K. Nagraj in press conference. TIWN File Photo

AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, June 5 (TIWN): As per MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs) released data, More than 30% officers of Indian Police Service (IPS) and about 15% officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have not disclosed details of their immovable property for the year 2014, according to government data.The All-India Service (Conduct) rules, 1968, require officers to disclose these details when they join service and submit an annual property statement—listing properties and shares. Officers who do not submit property returns in time will be “denied vigilance clearance” and will not be considered for promotion and empanelment (put on a short-list) for senior posts in Government of India, said a June 2012 home-ministry circular. Property declarations bring transparency, improves public confidence in the administration and ensures integrity of subordinates, said many officers. An officer who does not declare assets is in no position to ask subordinates to do so, out of fear that their own illegal assets will be exposed, said 1981-batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer M N Vijaykumar, who retired in April 2015. But with no action taken against those who default, more officers default, retired IPS officers told IndiaSpend. The home ministry can order departmental inquiries against defaulters or those who file wrong information, but not many such cases have been launched, said former Maharashtra Director General of Police Rahul Gopal.Tripura's top IPS defaulters list headed by DGP K.Nagraj, who also was charge-sheeted by CBI in 2007 for misappropriation of assets case in Hyderabad. Tripura's other senior police officers IGP Anurag, IGP Nepal Das, DIG Saurabh Tripathi, SP Uttam Majumdar and many others serving IPS officers listed as defaulters in Central Govt,Ministry of Home Affairs released list.

MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs List can be found in these links :

http://mha1.nic.in/ipr/iprmain.htm

http://mha1.nic.in/ipr/notipr_report.aspx

Tripura IPS officers list :

Serial IPS officer Name Batch State
962 Shri K Nagaraj 1983 Tripura
963 Shri V S Yadav 1987 Tripura
964 Shri Amitabh Ranjan 1988 Tripura
965 Shri B K Roy 1993 Tripura
966 Shri Anurag 1994 Tripura
967 Shri Nepal Chandra Das 1994 Tripura
968 Shri Tarun Baron Roy 1994 Tripura
969 Shri Bishwanath Deb Barma 1995 Tripura
970 Shri Saurabh Tripathi 1997 Tripura
971 Shri Goduguhuri Srinivasa Rao 1999 Tripura
972 Shri Khatra Joy Reang 2000 Tripura
973 Shri Uttam Kumar Majumdar 2001 Tripura
974 Shri Rajesh Sharma 2001 Tripura
975 Shri Gourab Chakraborty 2003 Tripura
976 Shri Pradip Paul 2004 Tripura
977 Shri Arindam Nath 2004 Tripura
978 Smt Princee Rani 2005 Tripura
979 Shri Lalhminga Darlong 2005 Tripura
980 Shri Soumitra Dhar 2005 Tripura
981 Shri Thirugnana Sambandan S 2006 Tripura
982 Shri Arjun Debbarma 2007 Tripura
983 Shri Har Kumar Debbarma 2007 Tripura
984 Shri Jitendra Debbarma 2007 Tripura
985 Shri Carey Marak 2007 Tripura
986 Shri Bijoy Nag 2007 Tripura
987 Shri Suranjan Das 2007 Tripura
988 Shri Saptarshi Abhijit Jaikrishna 2008 Tripura
989 Shri Ipper Manchak Dnyanoba 2008 Tripura
990 Smt Sarswati R 2010 Tripura
991 Shri Jalsingh Meena 2010 Tripura
992 Shri Ajit Pratap Singh 2012 Tripura
993 Smt Sudipta Das 2012 Tripura

As many as 1,302 IPS officers have missed the deadline by four months, most serving in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh cadre. More than 600 IPS officers have not filed returns for 2012 and 2013.

“Declaration of assets to the public is a way of telling the citizens that you have kept faith in me by permitting me to handle crores of rupees of public money for public use, and I have not exploited your trust,” said Vijaykumar.

However, some officers who figure in the list do not agree with Vijaykumar.

“Not every officer who missed the deadline is corrupt, sometimes because of busy schedule we forget to file returns,” said a senior IAS officer of the 1980 batch—currently posted in a central ministry—requesting anonymity.

Another senior IPS officer, also requesting anonymity, of the 1985 batch, whose name figures in the list, claims he submitted his return to the state government, which had apparently failed to forward it to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Defaulters at the top

More than 30 IPS officers in the defaulters’ list are Director Generals of Police. About 15 defaulting IAS officers hold secretary rank in the union government.

Service rules require officers to file annual property returns from their date of appointment. But returns were made public only in 2011 on a government website, as the Hindustan Times reported  that year.

Following the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act 2013 which provides for the establishment of a body of Lokpal for the Union and Lokayukta for states to inquire into allegations of corruption against public functionaries, officers must now reveal property details of their spouses and children as well.

However, in September 2014, Vinita Singla, wife of a government servant and working with an IT company, filed a writ petition in the Delhi High court against provisions regarding the disclosure of assets held in the names of spouses and children, contending that they violate her Fundamental Rights.

She pleaded that disclosed assets on a government website will cause prejudice and humiliation before the public at large. The high court passed an interim order staying the government from taking action as per the provisions of the act.

Following this, the government has been extending the deadline for filing property details under the Lokpal Act from first deadline of September 15, 2014. Officials are now asked to submit the returns by October 2015. â– 

(Patil is a New Delhi-based freelance journalist. He has worked with The Economic Times,DNA and The New Indian Express.) 

 

 

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