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| IAS officer's Matriculation certificate is missing? | | CVC wants clarification about Commissioner-Secretary's Date of Birth | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Oct 14: Taking cognizance of reports that an IAS officer of J&K cadre had 'overstayed' in service with the advantage of a surreptitious change in his date of birth (DOB), Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is understood to have asked for the officer's original Matriculation certificate. If highly placed bureaucratic sources are to be believed, the IAS officer has refused to produce the certificate with the claim that it had been "lost" in an official transit.
Holding the rank of Commissioner-Secretary, the IAS officer has mentioned 25-12-1951 as his DOB and he is thus scheduled to reach superannuation on 31-12-2011. CVC's cause of action is said to have emerged from an anonymous complaint that claimed the IAS officer, who got 1989 as his year of IAS allotment, should have reached the end of his service career three years back. However, an influential section of the state bureaucracy is interpreting the whole drama as "a cheap tactics to block the retiring IAS officer's entry into J&K State Public Service Commission".
Currently, at least three vacancies of Members exist in PSC and the well-connected and high-profile IAS officer is believed to be one among the contender. An open action by CVC or any other organization could make chances of the IAS officer's appointment as a member of PSC bleak.
Top echelons of Jammu and Kashmir government are, nevertheless, said to have received the disturbing communication from CVC and begun efforts to manage the umpteenth DOB crisis, this time afflicting a senior IAS officer.
Earlier this year, an IPS officer of the rank of IGP had landed in trouble when Government of Jammu & Kashmir ordered his sudden retirement with a back date in response to a communication from union Ministry of Home Affairs. The IPS officer challenged the order in J&K High Court and got a favourable order within months. He was reinstated within one hour of pronouncement of the order. Since the state Government has now accepted the IPS officer's changed DOB without going in appeal to a higher forum of judiciary, he is continuing as IGP but is now scheduled to retire at the end of next month.
In recent past, the IAS officer's old colleagues, who worked with him years back in Department of Archives and Archaeology, have begun to raise questions how the officer was in service five to seven years after their retirement. They include Prof Abdul Ahad and Ghulam Mohiuddin, who both retired as Director Archives in the last seven years, and Mumtaz Afzal, who retired as Commissioner-Secretary Education five years back. These retired officers have been reportedly saying that the difference between their DOB and that of the serving IAS was "not more than two years" when they worked together.
However, all speculations would be set aside if the IAS officer produced his Matriculation certificate to establish that his DOB was 25-12-1951. Sources said that yet another way of knowing the truth was reference to the result gazette which was believed to be available with J&K State Board of School Education as well the University of Kashmir where the IAS officer is said to have served briefly before shifting to the state government service. |
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