Chandigarh: Haryana IAS officer Pradeep Kasni, who has reportedly been transferred 60 times in 30 years, has been shunted out again. It comes days after he took on the Haryana government by red-flagging questionable appointments made by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
Kasni, the Secretary of the Administrative Reforms Department, has now been posted as the Administrator of the Command Area Development Agency, which is considered a relatively unimportant department in government circles.Â
The government calls it a “routine” transfer of six officers.
The 1997 batch IAS officer had last month refused to clear the appointment letters for five senior officers appointed by the Chief Minister in a hastily-organized ceremony. The officers were administered their oaths by the Chief Minister – a role usually reserved for the Governor – even though a new governor, Kaptan Singh Solanki, had taken charge hours before.