DRI ADG Transferred to Kolkata - does not join - Kept on Compulsory Wait
Mr. RK Sharma, ADG, DRI, Delhi Zonal Unit was transferred as Commissioner of Customs (Appeals), Kolkata and was relieved on 24.01.2013. Mr. Sharma did not join at Kolkata so far. An ADG, DRI made to work as Appellate Commissioner? Sacrilege!
Last Friday - 7.6.2013, the CBEC issued an order apparently in pursuance of a CAT order that Mr. Sharma will be on ‘compulsory wait' till further orders. He has been granted leave from 25.02.2013 to 07.06.2013 and his leave from 25.01.2013 to 24.02.2013 is to be regularised, if he applies for it.
From 25.01.2013 onwards, he will get his salary from the DG, Inspection. They all live happily ever after!
But it seems that Mr. Sharma was attending the DRI office in Delhi when he was supposed to be in Kolkata or on leave. DRI is a super sleuth agency with tons of confidential and sensitive information and the facility of telephone tapping. Incidentally, it was reported that Mr. Sharma had organised tapping of the telephones of his Chairman's sister and TIOL's editor. See the report in Indian Express.
It is really difficult for the Board to transfer its immovable assets.
CBEC Office Order No.133/2013, Dated: June 07 2013