Controversial Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer Rinkoo Singh Rahee (IAS:2023:UP) is back in the news, stoking another controversy. He has written a series of social media posts alleging corruption in the administration and targeting senior officials. Rahee has been in the spotlight over various controversies in the past one year.
Currently posted as SDM (Judicial) at Orai in Jalaun, Rahee posted his allegations on X on two consecutive days—Monday and Tuesday.
On Monday, he wrote a letter to the Labour Commissioner and Transport Commissioner, alleging corruption in the outsourcing of government vehicles.
“There is tremendous corruption in this outsourcing as well,” he wrote.
On Tuesday, he posted another message without naming anyone but appearing to target the District Magistrate.
He writes, “My boss in the district has put all his strength into destroying me, even up to Lucknow. Thank God for social media, which everyone is afraid of; otherwise, something very serious might have happened to me by now.”
He also claimed that his actions had put his “boss” in trouble.
Sources indicate that Rahee and Jalaun District Magistrate Rajesh Pandey do not have amicable relations. He is also said to be upset over his recent change in posting.
Rahee was posted as SDM of Jalaun tehsil in May this year, but on June 23, he reportedly had a heated conversation with a block pramukh, following which he was shifted from Jalaun tehsil and given charge as SDM (Judicial) at Orai.
The development is believed to have left Rahee upset with DM so much so that shortly after Rahee was transferred from his post as SDM Jalaun, a protest was organised in his support. A group of people took to the streets carrying posters in his favour and raised slogans demanding that his transfer be revoked. They called him an “honest officer.”
This is not the first time that Rahee has stoked controversies. The fact is he has been involved in several controversies before, almost wherever he was posted. His most recent controversy was when he passed insulting remarks about Shaheed Bhagat Singh in his address on Independence Day.
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