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Kusumjit Sidhu

Register · No. 16

Kusumjit Sidhu

IAS, Punjab cadre, 1979 batch, Retired 2016

46transfers, as of Nov 2013 in 36.6 years of service. 3 on the ribbon below, 2 of them documented.

  • Documented
  • One report
  • Years with no move on record

Kusumjit Sidhu, a 1979-batch Punjab IAS officer, had 46 transfers per her Executive Record (TOI, 2013) and retired as Union Secretary (Justice) in 2016. No reporting was found linking any of her transfers to a clash; the public record is a count, not a story.

From her ER sheet (TOI 2013 analysis): 46 transfers 'in a career which spanned over three decades'. Repeated in an IIC Occasional Publication (2014).

This count comes from analyses of service records, not from a reported dispute. Few of these moves have a published reason, and a high count is not evidence that the officer was punished.

The moves, and what came of them

Oldest first. Each fold is marked by how well the record holds it.

  1. One report

    Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab

    As Punjab's Chief Electoral Officer during the 2012 assembly election, which the Election Commission oversaw with transfers of district and police officers. There is no report of her own transfer in a dispute.

    Hill Post, Dec 2011

  2. Documented

    Named in TOI's Executive Record analysis with 46 transfers 'in a career which spanned over three decades'.

    The Times of India, Nov 2013 · India International Centre, 2014

  3. 3 years with no move on record here.

  4. Documented

    Secretary, Department of Justice, Government of IndiaRetired

    Retired as Secretary, Department of Justice, having earlier been Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises.

    Indian Mandarins, Apr 2016 · KNN India

Sources for the count

Photo: PIB (Ministry of Law & Justice), GODL-India, via Wikimedia Commons, GODL-India