Dilip Cherian | Karnataka home secy shunted out for calling Safe City ‘scam’
Published Jan 14, 2021, 12:11 am IST
Updated Jan 14, 2021, 12:11 am IST
Public spats are rarely pretty and the one between these two senior IPS officers has brought out the intense rivalries in the service
IPS officer D. Roopa.
IPS officer D. Roopa, who was the first woman home secretary of Karnataka has been transferred as the managing director of Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation amid her public spat with another IPS officer Hemant Nimbalkar, who, too, was transferred. Mr Nimbalkar was the additional commissioner (administration) in Bengaluru before being transferred to the internal security department.
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Karnataka IPS officer Hemanth Nimbalkar has been embroiled in a series of controversies, right from being dragged into the IMA Ponzi scam to being accused of floating a biased and unfair tender favouring a certain vendor in the Safe City Project for Bengaluru. Nimbalkar has been publicly called out by another IPS officer, D Roopa, who paid the price of bureaucracy for calling out a potential scam. Both the IPS officers were transferred amid the raging controversy on New Year s Eve. That s not the end of it.
The two officers had openly made allegations against each other embarrassing the government.
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BENGALURU: In a major reshuffle to the police department, the state government has transferred several IPS officers including IGPs D Roopa and Hemant M Nimbalkar, who had locked horns over the tender process of Bengaluru Safe City Project.
Roopa, who was Secretary to Government (PCAS), Home Department, has been transferred and posted as Managing Director, Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd., while Nimabalkar, who was Additional Commissioner of Police (Administration), Bengaluru city, is transferred to the Internal Security Division (ISD).
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The Nirbhaya fund controversy came to light after a news report mentioned that an unnamed IPS officer had impersonated as the Home Secretary to get confidential information and interfered with the tendering process of the Bengaluru Safe City Project.
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Ad the multi-crore Bengaluru Smart City Project controvery under the Nirbhaya Fund has taken the state by storm, Karnataka IPS officers Hemant Nimbalkar and Home Secretary D Roopa continue to engage in war of words unveiling various facets.
In the lastest development of the Nirbhaya fund project controversy Karnataka Home Secretary D Roopa, IPS has accused IPS officers Hemant Nimbalkar of floating a biased and unfair tender favouring an individual vendor .
Hemanth Nimbalkar (L) and D Roopa (R). (Photo: Twitter)
IGP admin Hemanth Nimbalkar on Sunday rubbished the allegations that he favoured one company in the tender process for the Bengaluru Safe City project, envisaged earlier to make the city safer for women and children by installing over 7,000 CCTV cameras.
IPS officer (PCAS) D Roopa alleged that the tender was not held in the right manner and was biased. Meanwhile, Hemanth Nimbalkar rubbished the allegations and accused Roopa of impersonating the state s home secretary to obtain crucial details about the Rs 620 crore project.
Nimbalkar said call one and call two for the tender had taken place and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) was a part of both bids, but due to the orders from the Centre and Karnataka government, the tender was cancelled as the order was about not procuring Chinese items.