Missing IRS Officers - Board wants details
AS many as 19 IRS (Cus & Excise) officers are missing. The Board does not know their whereabouts. In a letter dated 2nd June 2014, Ms. Mala Srivastava, the then Member (P&V) wrote to the Chief Commissioners asking them to send the original records of 19 missing IRS officers about whose whereabouts, the Board has no clue. The Member wanted the Chief Commissioners to respond in their signature latest by 15th June 2014.
Now the present Member (P&V) Ms Joy Kumari Chander wants the Chief Commissioners to give their personal attention and send her the report by 4th July 2014.
But what can the Chief Commissioners do if they also do not know where these missing officers are hiding?
Meenu G Krishnan is a 1980 batch IRS officer. She was promoted as Commissioner on 01.11.2002. The CBEC letter says that the office of the Chief Commissioner of Central Excise Zone Mumbai I vide F.No. 11/39- 3/Admn/CCO/MCX-I/2010 dt, 15.07.2010 has reported that E.O.L.was sanctioned by the Ministry to Ms. Meenu Gopal Krishnan, Joint Commissioner vide F.No. PF/444/80-Ad.1I dt 07.03.2003 up to 31.07.2003. No other information available.
There is some incongruity here - she was promoted as Commissioner in November 2002 and four months later she was given leave as Joint Commissioner! But anyway after 2003, nobody knows where she is. Had she continued as Commissioner, she would have become a Chief Commissioner by now. CBEC's Civil List says she is a Commissioner on leave since 31.07.2003.
Anil Singh Bedi an Additional Commissioner was transferred from Bhopal Central Excise to NACEN, Faridabad in 2005. He did not join there and since then there is no news from him.
Rajesh Nagpal is figuring in the list as an Additional Commissioner, but the Board has no idea where he is. He was promoted as Additional Commissioner in 2002.
Rajyashri S Waghray is a 1990 batch IRS officer, missing since 1999.
Vinay Kumar Bawa was promoted as Assistant Commissioner in 2002 and is not seen since. If he was traced, he would have retired in May 2014.
Tough job for the Chief Commissioners to trace these missing officers. In these days of satellite communication, is it difficult to find people. Normally missing Government servants are either abroad or hiding in India. It shouldn't be difficult to trace them and if you really don't want them, just leave them alone and treat them as dismissed from service after a due notice in the newspapers.
Three years ago, Board had circulated a similar list, but I found that one of the missing Deputy Commissioners in the list was very much working in a Custom House. Please see - 13.04.2011