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Rinku Singh Rahee

IAS (UPSC 2021, disability quota; earlier UP state service from 2004), Uttar Pradesh cadre, 2022 batch, Serving 2026

No published career count.

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

Shot in 2009 after reporting a welfare-fund scam in Muzaffarnagar. As a state officer he says he was charge-sheeted, suspended and sent to a psychiatric ward. As an IAS officer he was removed from his first sub-division within 36 hours, kept a year without work, and moved again after a clash with a BJP block chief. He alleges sidelining; the state says his conduct is the problem.

Born in Aligarh in 1982; his father runs a flour mill. BTech in metallurgy from NIT Jamshedpur (2002). Joined UP state service in 2004 and became District Social Welfare Officer, Muzaffarnagar, in late 2008. He says he found scholarship, fee-reimbursement and pension money being drawn through fake bank accounts in the office's name, a scam he puts at over Rs 100 crore, and reported it. On 26 March 2009, while he was playing badminton near his house, two attackers shot him; reports say six to eight bullets. He lost sight in one eye, partly lost hearing in one ear, and his jaw was shattered; he spent about a month in hospital in Meerut. Police charged eight people, including a welfare department accountant and a Samajwadi Party politician. In February 2021 a Muzaffarnagar court jailed four, including the accountant, for 10 years and acquitted four, including the politician, for lack of evidence. Rahee said he was not satisfied with the acquittals. In August 2012 the department filed an FIR against 12 people, including a former district social welfare officer and three bank managers, over 30 fake accounts and about Rs 45 crore. He cleared the UPSC civil services exam in 2021 (rank 683) under the disability quota, aged 40.

On the record

It is a gift for my honesty that even after sustaining seven bullet wounds, I am alive and in front of you.
Rinku Singh Rahee (PTI, 2022), indianexpress.com
Main naukar banne aaya hoon, malik banne nahi (I have come to be a servant, not to become a master).
Rinku Singh Rahee (The Indian Express, 2026), indianexpress.com

The moves, and what came of them

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

  1. Documented

    State service officer, protesting in LucknowSent to Aligarh

    He sat on dharna near the Assembly in Lucknow demanding an answer to his RTI on unspent Muzaffarnagar welfare funds for 2008–09 (Rs 60–70 crore, he said) and a probe. Police removed him at night and took him to hospitals including the psychiatric ward of the state medical university; reports differ on whether he was admitted. He was sent to his hometown, Aligarh, and later posted as coordinator of a state coaching centre for civil-services aspirants.

    Up against
    Social Welfare Department and Lucknow police Government: Akhilesh Yadav (SP), Uttar Pradesh.
    The officer said
    Said the hospital trip was meant to discredit him (as reported by NBT, 2024).
    The other side said
    No government account found in the reports opened.
    Outcome
    Removed from the protest; posted to Aligarh.
    What became of the matter
    Partly acted on. In August 2012 the department filed an FIR against 12 people over about Rs 45 crore in fake accounts. Outcome of that case not found. Governance Now, Aug 2012

    India Today, Mar 2012 · The Indian Express, Jul 2025 · Navbharat Times, Mar 2024

  2. 6 years with no move on record here.

  3. Documented

    District Social Welfare Officer, LalitpurIn charge, Government IAS/PCS Coaching Centre, Hapur

    He says he was suspended in 2018 in Lalitpur without reasons, then posted to the coaching centre in Hapur, which he calls a punishment posting. NBT lists four charge sheets across three districts: in Shravasti (2015–16) for spending a car allowance he says he never drew; in Lalitpur (2018) for allegedly exploiting teachers at a department school; and two in Hapur after he complained about the mess contractor.

    Up against
    Social Welfare Department Government: Yogi Adityanath (BJP), Uttar Pradesh.
    The officer said
    "When I was shot, there was a BSP government in the state. In the SP regime, I was sent to a mental asylum, and I was suspended in the BJP regime." (PTI, 2022)
    The other side said
    No government account of the suspension found.
    Outcome
    Stayed at the Hapur coaching centre until he cleared the UPSC exam.
    What became of the matter
    Unknown. Outcome of the charge sheets not found.

    PTI via The Indian Express, Jun 2022 · Navbharat Times, Mar 2024

  4. 7 years with no move on record here.

  5. Documented

    SDM, Puwayan (Shahjahanpur), his first IAS field postingAttached to the Board of Revenue, Lucknow, with no work

    Inspecting the tehsil on his first day, he made a lawyer's clerk he saw urinating against a wall do sit-ups. Lawyers protested that the toilets were unusable. Saying that as senior-most officer he was responsible for the filth, he held his ears and did five sit-ups in front of them; the video went viral. The state asked the DM for a report and attached him to the Revenue Board.

    Up against
    Local lawyers Government: Yogi Adityanath (BJP), Uttar Pradesh.
    Reported reason
    After the DM's report on the incident (HT). No written reason reported.
    The officer said
    "I took responsibility for the shortcomings of the tehsil and its staff. As a symbolic gesture of accountability, I performed sit-ups." (IE)
    The other side said
    A former IB special director called making the clerk do sit-ups "overreach" (The Wire).
    Outcome
    About nine months attached without a field post.
    What became of the matter
    Not applicable.

    The Indian Express, Jul 2025 · Hindustan Times, Mar 2026 · Hindustan Times, Apr 2026

  6. Documented

    Attached to the Board of Revenue, LucknowJoint Magistrate / SDM, Jalaun tehsil

    After letters in September and October 2025 about how the revenue department worked, and objecting to 'no work, no pay' for Aug–Sep 2025, he sent the President a seven-page letter offering a 'technical resignation' and asking to go back to state service, saying drawing a salary without work is itself corruption. He withdrew it on 27 April and was posted to Jalaun a week later.

    Up against
    UP bureaucracy Government: Yogi Adityanath (BJP), Uttar Pradesh.
    The officer said
    "The signalling from the top has been that survival will be difficult without a willingness to compromise on constitutional values." (letter to the President, quoted by The Wire). "I am not quitting the system." (IE)
    The other side said
    The Revenue Board did not answer The Wire's questions.
    Outcome
    Field posting restored.
    What became of the matter
    Not applicable.

    Hindustan Times, Mar 2026 · The Indian Express, Apr 2026 · The Wire, Apr 2026 · Hindustan Times, May 2026

  7. Documented

    SDM, Jalaun tehsilSDM (Judicial), Orai

    On 23 June he inspected Betwa cold storage, which Outlook reports Niranjan owns. Niranjan says Rahee tried to slap him and pushed him, and gave the DM CCTV footage; a five-member inquiry was set up. Revenue staff, a tehsildar, teachers and the lekhpal union had also complained about his behaviour. A week later he was moved to a judicial post. A month earlier BJP MLA Gauri Shankar Verma had publicly objected to his style of working.

    Up against
    Ram Raja Singh Niranjan, BJP block pramukh, Jalaun; cold-storage owner, BJP Government: Yogi Adityanath (BJP), Uttar Pradesh.
    Reported reason
    PTI: the order 'does not specify any reason'. Officials called it routine (ThePrint).
    The officer said
    Denied the allegations as false (IE). In a 15 Jul letter he alleged the DM, with MLA Verma present, told him to take no action on illegal land occupation in the tehsil; that an encroachment inquiry naming minister Swatantra Dev Singh was obstructed; and that he was moved before the inquiry reported. He asked for half pay, since the judicial post was four hours' work a day, or a cadre transfer (Outlook). He told the inquiry officer he had been threatened and offered inducements (Amar Ujala).
    The other side said
    Niranjan: "The transfer is not a solution. After the inquiry, legal action should be taken and a First Information Report should also be registered against the SDM." (ThePrint). The DM and the government have not answered his allegations in any report found.
    Outcome
    Moved to a judicial post; inquiry continued.
    What became of the matter
    Ongoing. On 5 Aug the DM reported against him, and on 20 Aug the state issued a show-cause notice (reply in 15 days) over the cold-storage complaint, a sit-in with furniture over office space on 27 Jun, a municipal inspection, complaints from staff and lawyers, and posting confidential letters on social media. He called it a 'love letter' and noted the DM met the CM on 4 Aug, a day before the report. On 25 Sep the Governor's secretariat told the DGP to ensure security for him and his family after he said Orai police had refused his complaint. Outcome of the notice not found. Amar Ujala, Sep 2026 Dainik Jagran, Sep 2026 PTI-Bhasha via IBC24, Oct 2026

    PTI via ThePrint, Jun 2026 · The Indian Express, Jun 2026 · ThePrint, Jul 2026 · Outlook, Jul 2026 · Amar Ujala, Jul 2026 · Dainik Jagran, Sep 2026