Whistleblower officer seeks Lokpal posting

New Delhi, November 17

Citing his relentless fight against corruption, whistleblower bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi has sought deputation in the anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal. The 2002-batch Indian Forest Service officer, who made headlines during his tenure as Chief Vigilance Officer of AIIMS, Delhi, has written to the Lokpal , seeking deputation to serve in its investigation branch.

“I belong to a respectable family of freedom fighters and my entire career has been that of persistent struggle/resistance against corruption of high and mighty of ruling establishment, with unflinching commitment in the face of relentless persecution of all form,” he has said in his letter written via the Uttarakhand Government. Chaturvedi is at present serving as Conservator of Forest (Research) at Haldwani, Uttarakhand.

Winner of the prestigious Magsaysay Award in 2015, Chaturvedi highlighted prominent cases investigated by him during his tenure as CVO of AIIMS and when posted in Haryana, and the appreciation received by him from various constitutional authorities. Four Presidential orders were passed in his favour from 2008-2014 during his tenure in Haryana.

In August 2015, his cadre was changed from Haryana to Uttarakhand on grounds of “extreme hardship” faced by him in form of harassment for uncovering a number of corruption cases. — PTI