Senior Maharashtra cadre IPS officer Abdur Rahman (IPS:1997:MH) may finally get his long-awaited VRS after waging a nearly eight-year-long legal and administrative battle and filing three separate applications for it.
Even this could be possible only after he approached the Supreme Court challenging the central government’s order rejecting his VRS plea. The relief came from the apex court on Wednesday, which set aside a 2019 Central government order rejecting Rahman’s VRS plea.
While calling the refusal of VRS to him a case of “non-application of mind,” the top court directed the Union Home Ministry to re-examine Rahman’s notice afresh within three months.
Rahman, an IIT-Kanpur civil engineering graduate, first applied for VRS in 2017 after being overlooked for promotion to the special IG post. He later withdrew the plea.
His second application was rejected in March 2018 for lack of vigilance clearance, and the third time, the Maharashtra govt cleared his VRS in October 2019, but the Centre blocked it again, citing disciplinary proceedings.
Rahman challenged the VRS denial before CAT, but it was dismissed. He then moved the Supreme Court and now has got relief.
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