MK Meena not relieved yet, decision on April 1

Delhi anti-corruption branch chief M.K. Meena, who was issued a transfer order by the Union home ministry last month, has not been relieved from his post and a decision in this regard has been deferred till April 1.

Mr Meena, who has been repeatedly been at loggerheads with the AAP government, was appointed to the post by the lieutenant-governor. He was transferred along with 13 other senior Delhi police officials on February 17, well over a month ago.

Joint commissioner of the New Delhi district here, Mr Meena is an officer of 1989-batch AGMUT cadre. His name along with another senior official, Shweta Chauhan, was not included in the relieving order issued on March 23, an official source said.

The source said the final decision on Mr Meena’s posting, slated to be the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, will be taken on April 1.

In the past three years, Mr Meena was scheduled to have been transferred to Arunachal Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but in both cases the orders were cancelled, the source added.

Under current rules, any officer under the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre has to take at least three “hard” postings, which include serving in states and Union Territories like Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

While the first hard posting has a minimum tenure of three years, the subsequent ones last for two years, a senior police official said.

The relieving order issued on March 23 includes the name of special commissioner (traffic) Muktesh Chander, who has been transferred to Goa. DCP (South) Prem Nath, who was initially heading the probe in the JNU row.