IAS officer in Bihar lodges police complaint; CM Nitish Kumar among those named

PATNA: A disgruntled IAS officer on Saturday left the administrative machinery here stunned when he reached a police station with a complaint seeking lodging of an FIR against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, besides several top officials.

Sudhir Kumar, a 1987 batch IAS officer, reached the Gardanibagh police station around noon and was allegedly made to wait for four hours before he was given a receipt of his written complaint.

“The matter pertains to forgery. Those named in the complaint include people from top to bottom. I will not take any names”, the bureaucrat, who is at present a member of the state revenue board, told reporters.

However, when repeatedly asked whether the chief minister has been named in the FIR, he replied with a categorical “yes”.

Another official, whose name he admitted to have mentioned in the complaint was IPS officer Manu Maharaj, a former SSP of Patna who has since been promoted to the DIG rank and is at present posted elsewhere.

The IAS officer, who is scheduled to retire early next year, had spent three years in jail after being named in a job recruitment scam until the Supreme Court granted him bail in October last year.