Official who filed complaint against CM’s secretary was once fired by his govt

On July 14, Joshi had requested the ACB to forward the complaint to the CBI.

Acting on his complaint, the CBI raided and sealed the third floor of the Delhi Secretariat, and in the process, triggered a massive political storm.

Currently posted as Controller of Communication Accounts, Uttarakhand, Joshi has been based in Dehradun for the last four months.
His exit from the Delhi government was, however, unceremonious and abrupt.

Joshi is a 1992-batch Indian Post and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service (IP&TAFS) officer. Last year, when the Delhi government had invited applications for the post of member (finance), DUSIB, Joshi had applied for the post.

He was selected for the post in June 2014, which had a three-year tenure.

Joshi was also given additional charge as member-secretary, Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC), on March 3 this year — less than a month after the AAP came to power in the capital.

However, within a month of his appointment at the DDC, Joshi relinquished the additional charge.

In an e-mail written to Delhi Chief Secretary K K Sharma on April 8, Joshi stated that Ashish Khetan, AAP leader and vice-chairman of DDC, had called him up on March 29 and asked him to relinquish the position. In his e-mail, Joshi said he had also received another call asking him to step down, this one from the secretary to the chief minister, Rajendra Kumar.

“The instant reason for the decision of Mr Khetan to ask me to relinquish (my post) was that I was unable to issue orders to the AAP volunteers working on a casual basis in DDC.,” Joshi wrote. However, Khetan had rubbished Joshi’s claim.

Joshi also wrote that in one of the “most humiliating experiences” of his entire career, three AAP volunteers had barged into his room and misbehaved with him. “Mr Khetan, my immediate superior, did not intervene,” he claimed.

Ten days after he wrote to the chief secretary, Joshi received marching orders from the Delhi government. He was repatriated to his parent cadre, Ministry of Communications and IT, on April 18.