State government is openly flouting the central government’s IPS Cadre Amendment Rules 2014 passed on January 28 last, fixing the minimum tenure of 2 years for IPS officers. So far, 524 transfers of IPS cadre rank have been made by the Samajwadi Party government just in last nine months pointing towards the harassment of the entire cadre as well as their family members.
The above sensational fact came to the fore through an information, obtained by Right To Information (RTI) activist, Nutan Thakur. She claimed that beginning with the transfer order of her husband, Amitabh Thakur (posted as IG civil defense in lucknow) on 30 January, 86 transfer orders of IPS officers have been issued by the State government in around 9 months after the passing of these Rules. Through these transfer orders, a total of 524 IPS officers have been transferred. 52 officers were transferred through one single order dated 07 June. Reason for transfers have not been stated in these transfers while it is expected as per the Rules, claimed Thakur.
She further said that state has a total of 405 IPS officers and thus on average an IPS officer has been transferred 1.2 times only in 9 months while the Rules prescribe a minimum tenure of 2 years. Interestingly during this period 84 officers were attached to DGP headquarters and transfer of 17 officers were cancelled subsequently, which as per Thakur, is a clear indication of the complete mindlessness in transfers.
The RTI information shows that 120 officers have been transferred more than once during this period. Kripa Shankar, Mohit Gupta, luv Kumar, Vijay Kumar Garg, Sharad Sachan, Sriparna Ganguly, Vikramaditya Sachan, Umesh Kumar Srivastava, Anis Ahmed, Rajesh Krishna, Alankrita Singh, Dinesh Chandra Dubey, Jitendra Shukla and Happy Guptan have been transferred 5 times during this short period of 9 months. Even ASPs have been transferred midway with Swapanil Mamgoi getting posted to Ghaziabad on 11 February and to Jhansi on 29 September.