nDespite Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitching in with his moral support to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Communities, a cartel of bureaucrats are working round-the- clock to victimise, disgrace and humiliate Government officials belonging to the SC/ST and BC sections. This has been brought to light by a Chief Secretary grade IAS officer in Tamil Nadu.
The 13-pages long complaint filed by Jagmohan Singh Raju, Commissioner of Land Reforms (additional chief secretary) Government of Tamil Nadu, and which the Tamil Nadu Police refused to accept reveals shocking developments and happenings in the country’s civil service.
The Pioneer had brought out the news that Raju, a Punjab-born IAS officer belonging to the SC community is being denied promotion to the post of additional secretary/secretary to the Government of India because of his status as a member of the SC
Raju , who began his er in the civil service at the age of 22 has been honoured internationally and nationally for the meritorious and exemplary services rendered by him for the upliftment of the society. He was due for empanelment as additional secretary /secretary to the Government of India in 2016.
But certain people in the corridors of power cannot digest the fact that an officer from the SC community would occupy the post of cabinet secretary, the topmost post a civil servant could aspire.
A group of officials ganged up and devised strategies to derail the progress of Raju’s career by foisting false fake and frivolous cases on him.
Though all cases were found to be fake by the investigating agencies of the Government of India and judiciary, the people responsible for removing the blots on the career of the officer ganged up and retained the charges with more vigour.
Police complaint accessed by The Pioneer threw out shocking goings on in India’s bureaucracy.
“My career has nosedived because of caste based discrimination at the hands of senior government functionaries and others. I have been in particular victimised by Kabindra Joshi, G Srinivasan, KV Chowdary (CVC), PK Mishra (additional principal secretary to the Prime Minister). With the sole motive of harming my current and future professional/employment prospects and social standing they have been ruining my impeccable reputation as an honest officer by giving false information against me to public servants , instituting false and malicious inquiries against me contrary to established norms and practices and creating an atmosphere of distrust and prejudice to discriminate against me. Thereby they have committed atrocities on me which are an offences inter alia under Section 3 of the SC/ST (Prohibition of Atrocities Act) 1989,” Raju said in his complaint which the Tamil Nadu police refused to accept. Joshi and Srinivasan are under secretaries in the central Government with unlimited power at their disposal.
Raju’s complaint is replete with the modus operandi followed by the quartet of Joshi, Srinivasan, Mishra and Chowdary, the last named being the chief vigilance commissioner of the country.
Despite Raju being cleared in all the inquiries held by the vigilance department of the government of India, these officials succeeded in retaining the charges against him by tampering the Vigilance Information System of the Department o Personnel and Training (DOPT) of the Government of India.
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) which went into the woes of Raju expressed its anguish and shock over the way the officer has been subjected to the worst kind of treatment.
“What is shocking is the denial of justice to Raju has happened despite the Prime Minister’s assurance to the members of the SC, ST and OBC sections that this was going to be their century,” said a senior civil service officer privy to the goings on in India’s corridors of power.
People who cry from rooftops for any alleged violation of the rights of the oppressed classes have not uttered a single word in support of Raju.
They may be indifferent because Raju does not command any vote bank in Tamil Nadu.