Dutta likely to get CBI post

The Centre on Monday urged the State government to relieve senior IPS officer and CID DGP Rupak Kumar Dutta of State service as it has initiated the process of appointing him as the Additional Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The department of personnel and training, GOI, is learnt to have written to Chief Secretary S V Ranganath to relieve Dutta.

Dutta had served as ADGP, Karnataka Lokayukta police, and investigated many corruption cases in the State. The Centre offered him the CBI posting, which he picked up. He belongs to 1981 batch and still has five-and-half years of service, sources said.With retirment of four senior IAS officers, including Additional Chief Secretaries (ACSs) K Jairaj and K Jothiramalingam, on May 31, two of the eight sanctioned ACS posts will fall vacant next month. Principal Secretary to Home department S M Jaamdar and Secretary to Agriculture and Horticulture departments Babu Rao Mudbi are other two IAS officers who will retire on May 31. 

According to secretariat sources, four IAS officers who will become eligible to be elevated to the ACS rank are C S Khedar (who is director general of employee State Insurance, GOI), L V Nagarajan, Principal Secretary, Finance department, G C R Subramanian (KAT member) and Anitha Kaul, Additional Secretary, HRD, GoI. All these officers belong to the 1979 batch. The government usually elevates those who are serving in the State.

Acting DG&IG

The State government is likely to appoint senior IPS officer Lalrokhuma Pachau as the acting DG&IG of the State on May 31 in view of the Karnataka High Court rejecting Shankar Bidari’s petition seeking his reinstatement as the head of the police force on Monday. A R Infant, who is DG&IG now, is retiring on May 31.

Secretariat sources said the government was not able to initiate the process of appointing the new DG&IG as the case was pending in the court. The process is likely to be taken up on Tuesday. 

Under the process, the government has to send a list of DGP rank officers to the UPSC, which will, in turn, select three names. The government has to pick any of the three officers.

Sources said the list of nine IPS officers which the government has finalised to submit to the UPSC doesn’t comprise the names of either Bidari or Infant. 

Four DGP rank officers are eligible to occupy the post are: Pachau, who has already served as head of the police in Mizoram, Susant Mahapatra (DGP, Training), Rupak Kumar Dutta (DGP, CID) and B E Umapathy (DGP, Research and Restructuring). Pachau is the senior most police officer in the State.