Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], January 30 (ANI): IAS officer Radha Raturi will be the first woman Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand, officials said on Tuesday.
According to information received by ANI from the state government, 1988 batch IAS officer Radha Raturi will be the new Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand.
An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1988 batch, Raturi is currently the additional chief secretary of Uttarakhand.
Raturi is the first woman to hold the top administrative post in Uttarakhand.
Raturi has handled many important posts in the state bureaucracy in the past.
Besides the District Magistrate of many districts in the state, Raturi has also looked after the Women and Empowerment Department for a long time.
Radha Raturi’s husband, Anil Raturi, a senior IPS officer has been Director General of Police of Uttarakhand.
Known for her upright demeanour, IAS officer Radha Raturi had in October last year caused a stir after she accused the Uttar Pradesh Police of framing innocents in false cases.
The accusations by the senior IAS officer came in the backdrop of the killing of Gurpreet Bhullar, wife of a BJP leader. Speaking at a presser after the killing, Raturi had said that UP Police “often arrest innocent people and claim that they’ve solved the case”.
“This is wrong. If you punish an innocent person then 99 other criminals are born. Right judgment should be made and right people should be punished,” she had said at the time.
