Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka , who was recently booked in a corruption case, says the FIR is a serious breach of his fundamental right because of noncompletion of statutory provisions before registering the case. In a candid talk with TOI’s Ajay Sura about reports of his joining AAP, the senior bureaucrat says, “How many other cases have been registered, despite corruption being known to be widely prevalent?”
Do you see the current FIR against you as an outcome of tussle within the state bureaucracy or due to any vendetta?
The FIR is a result of personal vendetta of two individuals. The first individual’s father had been found guilty and punished by me for stealing rice from HSWC warehouses. The other individual had been my subordinate in previous postings, when I had referred his misconduct to the chief secretary over wrongfully engaging people and abusing official resources. Now this FIR has been raised on a 12-year-old dead issue, to malign my reputation. The spin masters have converted it into a story of bureaucratic tussle, which it is not.
