Home Secretary Anil Goswamy Sacked Wednesday Feb 04,2015

                                                                              

                                                                          

Union home secretary Anil Goswami was on Wednesday sacked from the post in the wake of the controversy over his alleged attempt to stall the arrest of Saradha scam accused Matang Sinh, a former Union minister

 

On Wednesday morning, the Home Minister Rajnath Singh first gave audience to the Home Secretary Anil Goswami for an hour where Anil Goswami is learnt to have explained the circumstances under which he made the calls but Home Minister Rajnath Singh was unconvinced

Anil Goswami, an IAS officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre, was appointed home secretary during the term of the previous United Progressive Alliance(UPA) Government.

 

                                                                                 
There were reports that he had spoken to CBI officers following their decision to arrest Matang Sinh.
Matang Sinh, who was minister of state in the PV Narasimha Rao government in the 1990s, was arrested on January 31,2015 by the CBI in Kolkata on charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating and misappropriation of funds in the Saradha scam.


Home Secretary Anil Goswami is the third senior official who had to resign or whose services were curtailed by the NDA Govt over the past few weeks.

Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh was removed as  last week and S Jayasankar succeeded
The Term of Avinash Chander as Chief of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was curtailed last month.

K Durga Prasad was apparently removed as chief of the Special Protection Group (SPG) during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Nepal and he has now been posted in the Central Reserve Police Force.