Rajeshwar Singh started his civil service profession with the Uttar Pradesh Police. (File)
New Delhi:
Enforcement Directorate officer Rajeshwar Singh has been granted voluntary retirement from service (VRS) by the Union authorities. He’s anticipated to hitch the BJP and contest the upcoming Meeting polls in Uttar Pradesh.
Mr Singh, who was serving because the joint director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Lucknow up to now, tweeted to announce that he was ‘hanging up his boots’.
“In the present day my request for voluntary retirement (VRS) from the service of Authorities of India has been accepted. The caravan of 24 years of tireless and conscientious laborious work, carried out in a relentless method, has reached a degree of transition at the moment,” he said in a letter hooked up with the Twitter publish on Monday night time.
The officer started his civil service profession with the Uttar Pradesh Police, the place he served for about 10 years whereas the remainder have been within the ED, a federal probe company that investigates cash laundering and overseas change violation crimes.
“As my skilled journey of 24 years turns to a transition at the moment, on this event, I specific my deep seated gratitude to the Hon PM Shri @narendramodi ji, Hon HM Shri @AmitShah ji and FM Smt @nsitharaman ji, CM Shri @myogiadityanath ji, Shri S Okay Mishra, Director ED and Uttar Pradesh Police. I’ve discovered loads whereas working with these organizations for therefore a few years.
“I be part of the PM’s mission to make India a Vishwa Guru, as a participant, to contribute with conviction and integrity on this strategy of nation-building,” he mentioned.
The officer had utilized for VRS late final yr.
Sources mentioned he might contest the Uttar Pradesh polls on a BJP ticket.
A B.Tech and PhD in police, human rights and social justice, Singh joined the ED in 2007 on deputation.
He was completely absorbed into the ED cadre in 2014 and has headed some high-profile investigations into the 2G spectrum allocation case, the 2010 Commonwealth Video games, the cash laundering instances in opposition to former Union finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, the Aircel Maxis and VVIP choppers case.
Belongings value about Rs 4,000 crore have been hooked up in his probes.
“I’m deeply happy that regardless of numerous threats and strain techniques from unscrupulously corrupt leaders, my braveness to do my job with out bowing down has been appreciated repeatedly by the Hon’ble Supreme Court docket,” he said.
The officer has had a share of controversies, together with an occasion in June 2018, when the Finance Ministry submitted a secret report back to the Supreme Court docket, apparently carrying particulars of a telephone name obtained by the officer from Dubai.
The report is alleged to have been ready by nation’s exterior intelligence company Analysis and Evaluation Wing and handed over to the Division of Income within the Finance Ministry, beneath which the ED features.
The then ED director Karnal Singh had issued a press assertion saying the abroad name obtained by Rajeshwar Singh pertained to an “ongoing investigation” and that he was a accountable officer with excellent profession data.
The federal government had additionally launched an investigation in opposition to Rajeshwar Singh for his letter by which he had made a scathing assault on the then income secretary Hasmukh Adhia questioning him if the latter had developed animosity in opposition to him by “siding with scamsters and their associates”? Rajeshwar Singh was subsequently issued a discover looking for a proof for alleged “insubordination” within the context of this letter by the income division, to which he has replied with a “remorse” and had defined his facet of the story.
That letter, sources had mentioned, was despatched by “official channels” to the company’s chief Karnal Singh but it surely was by no means forwarded to Mr Adhia.
Accusations of sure different alleged irregularities made in opposition to Mr Singh have been probed by the ED, the CBI and the Central Vigilance Fee, and a report was despatched to the court docket and the federal government stating that there was “no advantage” within the allegations and therefore the inquiry was closed.
Mr Singh, who carried out quite a few encounters throughout his stint within the uniform, is married to IPS officer Laxmi Singh, who’s at the moment serving because the Inspector Common of Lucknow police vary.
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