Register · No. 15
Vijay Singh
IPS, Uttar Pradesh cadre, 1981 batch
47transfers, as of May 2013. 1 on the ribbon below, 1 of them documented.
- Documented
- One report
- Years with no move on record
Summary
This Uttar Pradesh IPS officer was transferred 47 times as of May 2013, per a UP Home Department RTI reply to activist Nutan Thakur reported by TOI and HT. No reporting was found on the reasons for any individual transfer or on any clash with politicians. The public record is a count only.
47 per the 2013 RTI reply.
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.
Documented
A reply from the UP Home Department to an RTI application by Lucknow activist Nutan Thakur showed this IPS officer had been transferred 47 times. TOI and HT reported K. L. Meena 59, Kamal Saxena 48 and Vijay Singh 47, among 43 UP IPS officers with 40 or more transfers.
- Reported reason
- None reported. The RTI reply gave counts only.
RTI reply UP Home Department reply to RTI application of Nutan Thakur (as reported; reply not published), May 2013
(as reported) transferred 47 times
The Times of India, May 2013 · The Times of India, May 2013 · Hindustan Times, 2013