Chandigarh: Senior IPS officer Bharti Arora, currently posted as the inspector general of police of Ambala Range in Haryana, has sought voluntary retirement from service citing personal grounds, and said she wants to be absorbed in Krishna bhakti by dedicating rest of her life to the service of Lord Sri Krishna.
In a letter to the chief secretary through the director general of police, Arora wrote, “I voluntarily submit this application seeking retirement from the service with effect from August 1, 2021, under rule 16 (2) of All India Services (DCRB) Rules, 1958, after attaining 50 years of age.”
Bharti Arora, a 1998 batch IPS officer said now she wishes to achieve the ultimate goal of life. “I yearn to traverse the path shown by the holy saints such as Guru Nanak Dev, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Kabirdas, Tulsidas, Surdas, Meerabai, the Sufi saints and dedicate the rest of my life in loving devotional service of Lord Sri Krishna,” she said. Her husband Vikas Arora is also an IPS officer from the same batch and is posted as IG Rewari (south range).
She told that she always took her service as her pride and passion and added that she has elaborated on the reasons for seeking voluntary retirement after putting in 23 years of service.
In her stint as an IPS officer, Arora had handled the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast case as then Superintendent of Police (Railways). As the Superintendent of Police of Ambala, she made hadlines in 2009 by arresting the then BJP MLA Anil Vij, presently holding the Home portfolio in the Khattar government. Apart from this, Arora had also been in the news in 2015 for the controversy with her senior colleague Navdeep Singh Virk. She had accused Virk of obstructing the investigation of a rape case and threatening her.
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She was transferred to Ambala Range from Karnal in April 2021 as part of a reshuffle in the police administration.
In her letter, Arora wrote, “My service has been my pride and passion. I am very grateful to this service for providing me with the opportunity to serve, to learn and to grow. My gratitude to the state of Haryana for showing me the right path. It is my humble request to you to consider my request and allow me to voluntarily retire from service with effect from August 1.”
Bharti Arora said she
has no plan of joining politics and her inclination towards spirituality was
her sole reason of taking this decision.
Dinesh k Sharma