Special Secretary (Vigilance) Y Rajasekhar, who has been divested of his charge by the Delhi Government, has trashed the allegations of “forgery and corruption” leveled against him by officials against whom he had taken action and advised disciplinary action.
The AAP dispensation has alleged that the IAS officer faces charges of “forgery and corruption”, including the alleged CNG fitness scam.
The 2012-batch IAS officer is apparently facing the heat as he was overseeing various sensitive cases related to the alleged excise policy case, renovation of Chief Minister’s official bungalow and razing of a heritage structure for construction of a house for then Delhi Jal Board Chief Executive Officer among others.
Rajasekhar was divested of his duties on the directive of the Delhi Services Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on May 13.
Bharadwaj had said that several written complaints against Rajasekhar have been received alleging his involvement in forgery and corruption. The Delhi Government will look into all these complaints seriously and impartially, he had said in a statement earlier this week.
Trashing all allegations against him, Rajasekhar said he has submitted a 157-page report to Delhi L-G VK Saxena with documentary evidence, including clearance from the Central Vigilance Commission and the Union Home Ministry. The Pioneer is in possession of this report.
“I have come across statements in newspapers about certain allegations against the undersigned. In this context, it is to mention here that the job profile of the undersigned was always in the Enforcement and Regulatory Department. As a result, faced counter complaints from officers against whom the undersigned had taken action and recommended disciplinary action,” the IAS officer said in his report.
“All the allegations fall under this category and the same were already inquired and investigated by Highest Vigilance Authority of the country, that is, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)”, Rajasekhar stated, buttressing further that the reports have been further investigated and finally accepted by the Union Home Ministry.
“On the contrary, the MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs) directed to assess threat perspective and directed to take action against false complainants,” reads the report.
Bharadwaj had taken the step citing complaints that Rajasekhar was “running an extortion racket and demanding protection money from officers”.
Through a legal notice to the Delhi Government, NGO Abhinav Manch had demanded action against the officer over charges of “corruption, forgery and harassment”.
It claimed that Rajasekhar has been accused of “planting fabricated documents” during his earlier stint at the Vigilance Directorate to save accused senior officers involved in the CNG fitness scam.
In the report, the officer asserted the MHA had given a clean chit to him. He further pointed out the fact that the allegation is being levelled as if he was the author of the CNG kit scam, when in actuality, he was never posted in the transport department.
It has also been alleged that he “harassed and threatened” a woman officer at the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) where he was earlier posted as Director (Estates). During his tenure in NDMC, many colleagues had submitted complaints against Rajasekhar. It included over 60 complaints by one person to the CVC accusing the IAS officer of “bribery and having benami properties”, the notice said. In this connection, the Central Vigilance Officer in his 2018 report, pointed out that the allegations were being made “to create confusion in the system to tarnish the image of YVVJ Rajasekhar”.
The Delhi Government has also claimed to have received a complaint against the officer, claiming that he was “deliberately” brought from Goa before his tenure in the coastal State ended and “planted” in the Delhi Government’s Services and Vigilance departments for “executing specific political agenda”, according to sources.