Home Secretary Anil Goswamy
resigned yesterday after the government urged him to submit his resignation
letter in the wake of his alleged effort to stall the arrest of Saradha scam
accused Matang Sinh, a minister in the Narasimha Rao's government.
The sources are saying that
Goswami was to complete his tenure that was ending on 30 June 2015; but the
government asked him to submit his papers and he complied. It is reported that
his resignation was his key to 'dignified' exit.
Rural Development Secretary LC
Goyal, a 1979-batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, is his replacement. Goyal has
some experience of working in the home ministry where he served as a joint
secretary in the ministry's internal security division from 2002 to 2007.
The news of Goswami's removal
came following the media reports that he tries to dissuade the CBI from
arresting Sinh on Saturday.
This is the second incident of
removing a top-level bureaucrat in the past few days; Sujata Singh, the foreign
secretary, was removed just days before the end of her tenure to get S
Jaishankar on board.
It has been reported that the
removal of Goswamy became a concrete certainty after he admitted to the Home
Minister that he contacted a CBI official before the arrest of Sinh in Kolkata on
Saturday.
The CBI was unhappy with Goswami
for his interference in the arrest. It submitted a report to the PMO on this
issue against Goswami and a joint director level officer of the CBI.
Rajnath Singh who returned to the
capital on Tuesday talked to Goswamy regarding the issue, and after Goswamy
accepted to have talked to the CBI authorities on this matter, the Home
Minister briefed the PMO about this, and the deal was sealed for the former
Home Secretary.
Goswami, 60, is a 78-batch IAS
officer of J&K cadre, was appointed the Home Secretary by the Manmohan
Singh cabinet in 2013.
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