MHA seeks list of IPS/IAS from Arunachal, Mizoram with ‘doubtful integrity’

  • The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked the chief secretaries of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram to send a list of suspected IPS, IAS, officers with ‘doubtful integrity’ before January 10 next year.
  • The ministry issued a directive to the chief secretaries which said that they should prepare an ‘Agreed list of suspected officers for 2019-2020 in respect to IAS, IPS, Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Service (DANICS) and Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands (DANIPS) officer’” and to send it by January 10, 2020 to MHA.
  • It further explained that ‘agreed list will be prepared of officers of gazetted status against whom there are complaints about honesty or integrity, doubts or suspicion, after consultation between the officer of the department concerned and of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’.
  • The agreed list, informally known as secret list in Indian bureaucracy, would be shared with the CBI to check the veracity of allegations.
  • “It is requested to prepare the agreed list of officers in respect of the all to IAS, IPS, DANICS and DANIPS officer accordingly and submit to the ministry at the earliest,” the notification stated.