New Delhi: The Home Ministry on Thursday proposed transferring IPS officer Archana Ramasundaram from the Central Bureau of Investigation to National Crime Records Bureau, a year after the Supreme Court ruled that her appointment did not follow due procedure.
Sources that Archana will be posted as Director General of National Crime Records Bureau.
The previous Congress-led UPA appointed Archana as Additional Director in CBI.
The apex court's stand came during a hearing on a PIL filed against posting Archana as CBI's Additional Director without following proper procedure of getting the consent of Tamil Nadu government, to whose police force she belongs.
The bench headed by Chief Justice RM Lodha was of the view that rules require concurrence of the state government and every action has to be taken by taking into account the federal structure.
It made it clear that it was not making any remarks against the officer, who has been charge sheeted by Tamil Nadu for joining CBI on central deputation without being relieved.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi had said,"I am trying to sort out and even advised that one way out is she goes out (as Additional Director), and gets empanelled on DG rank".
Ramasundaram, a 1980 batch officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, had served in the CBI as Deputy Inspector General and later as its first woman Joint Director and handled various cases pertaining to Economic Offences between 1999 and 2006.
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