Rajiv Mehrishi
IAS 1978, Rajasthan cadre (former Union Home Secretary)
1064days after leaving Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Then Reliance Strategic Investments Ltd.
The cooling-off rule
CAG exit to RSIL board approval
The rule: Constitution Art. 148(4): CAG not eligible for further office under Government of India or a State after ceasing to hold office. No bar on private employment. AIS rule 26 (one year) ran from his IAS retirement.
No rule engaged on these dates.
Before and after
Documented
1064 days after leaving.
Documented
Reliance Strategic Investments Ltd (renamed Jio Financial Services)
Independent Director, five years (board approval 7 Jul 2023, effective on RBI approval)
former bureaucrat Rajiv Mehrishi, who served as home secretary as well as CAG, has been appointed independent director on RSIL for five years.
What the office had to do with the company
Report No. 35 of 2017 on revenue sharing by private telecom operators, tabled in Parliament; found Reliance Jio understated revenue, with a Rs 6.78 crore shortfall in licence fee and spectrum charges.
- When
- 19 Dec 2017
- Role
- CAG (during Mehrishi's term)
Report No.35 of 2017 - Sharing of Revenue by Private Telecom Service Providers upto 2014-15 Communications and IT Sector Union Government Date on which Report Tabled: Tue 19 Dec, 2017
CAG, Dec 2017 from Quadrant by Rs 26.62 crore and from Jio by Rs 6.78 crore for licence fee (LF) and spectrum usage charge (SUC)
Indian Express, Dec 2017
What was said
None sought yet.
Sources
Dates and filings placed side by side; being listed is not a finding of wrongdoing. Sources were opened on Oct 2026.
Photo: Press Information Bureau / Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, via Wikimedia Commons, GODL-India