The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has made public the list of IPS officers who failed to submit their Immovable Property Returns (IPRs) for 2011, despite several reminders.
Some senior officers —National Crime Records Bureau Director Shafi Alam of Bihar cadre, newly-appointed Jammu and Kashmir DGP Ashok Prasad of Andhra Pradesh cadre, former Chennai City Commissioner and 1983 batch officer T Rajendran, CBI Additional Director R K Dutta and ADGP (Armed Police) of Tamil Nadu Karan Singha among others — feature in the list that has 508 names.
Karnataka ADGP G M Hyath, Gujarat ADGP R K Patadia, suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and controversial Deputy Inspector General A K Upadhyay of Odisha cadre have also not submitted their annual IPRs.
In all, the list has names of nearly one-sixth of the sanctioned strength of 3,393 officers.
As many as 81 Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officers, including Director General of Anti-corruption Organisation Arun Kumar Gupta, are listed as defaulters. The state has a sanctioned strength of 317 officers.
Karnataka, which has a sanctioned cadre strength of 136, comes second with 76 officers failing to submit their IPRs.
Among other states, 17 officers are of Tamil Nadu cadre, 18 of Gujarat, 19 of Kerala, 26 of Jammu and Kashmir, 27 of Bihar, 29 of Andhra Pradesh and 33 of Jharkhand cadre.
The MHA had earlier asked all IPS officers to submit their IPRs for 2011 by January 31 this year and later extended the deadline to June 18.
In the absence of the 2011 IPR data, the erring officers would be denied vigilance clearance and not be considered for promotion and empanelment for senior-level posts in the Govt of India.
The list also names K L Meena, a 1985 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
In January, Meena’s name was considered for the Inspector General/equivalent post in the Government of India, but was not approved for empanelment.