-The Times of India IAS officer Ashok Khemka's decision to take his grievances to the media does not seem to have gone down well with the government. Though neither Khemka, who has been transferred 43 times in 19 years, nor the state government has approached the ministry of personnel, officials here appeared to be critical of his going to the media with his complaint of abrupt transfer. The ministry of personnel looks...

-The Hindu Fresh documents with The Hindu show clear and undeniable links between the sudden transfer of senior IAS official Ashok Khemka and his initiation of a probe specifically related to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra and his companies, contrary to the Haryana government attempts to establish that the two events were unrelated. The documents belie the claims made by the Haryana government that Mr. Khemka acted on the Vadra-DLF...

-The Times of India A top IAS officer in Haryana, Ashok Khemka, who was recently trasferred by the state government for allegedly ordering a probe into the land deals of Robert Vadra, has spoken out against his abrupt transfer. Khemka had cancelled the mutation of a land sold by Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law to the DLF and also ordered probe into the alleged undervaluation of some of his land deals. Speaking to Times Now,...

-Outlook Mumbai: Observing that the government has the power to transfer officials in special cases before completion of the Tenure posting, the Bombay High Court has upheld the transfer of a senior police inspector following allegations of biased investigations. A division bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar was hearing a petition filed by senior police inspector Sanjeev Kokil, challenging his transfer from the MRA Marg police station in south Mumbai to...

-The Economic Times The home ministry has sought the opinion of all states on whether offences like terrorism and organised crime can be treated as federal frames. It has forwarded the 5th Report of the second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) to states, asking for their comments on each of the 152 recommendations that relate to state governments. This report, submitted to the government in June 2007, is among the only two...