A senior IAS officer heading the Home Ministry's Foreigners Division, Additional Secretary B K Prasad, who was also entrusted with a probe to ascertain how certain papers in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case went missing, has been given a two-month extension in service. Prasad, a 1983-batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, was due to retire on May 31. According to an official order, he has been granted extension for a period of two months with effect from June 1 to July 31. Following an uproar in Parliament, Prasad was given the charge of the probe into the missing papers on March 14. He was asked to probe how the papers went missing and who all were responsible. According to top Home Ministry sources, the papers have still not been traced. Prasad was also embroiled in a controversy after an under-secretary in the Home Ministry, Anand Joshi, accused him of targeting the latter when he refused to give a clean chit to Ford Foundation.
