Stories of honesty of Ashok Khemka, IAS officer of 1991 batch of Haryana cadre, are famous all over the country. Ashok Khemka, who retired on 30 April 2025, is spending time with his family these days. IAS officer Ashok Khemka told that in the year 1994, he was posted as SDM in Tohana, Haryana. Khemka told that at that time the DC called that trucks will have to be arranged from your jurisdiction for the PM's rally. At that time, the Prime Minister of the country was PV Narasimha Rao. Khemka told that he flatly refused the DC. On this, the DC said that you give it in writing that you will not arrange trucks for the PM's rally. On this statement of the DC, Khemka said that if you give it in writing, I will also reply in writing.

Ashok Khemka told that being upset with this, the very next day he was transferred to Chandigarh as Under Secretary in the entire cadre. While his wife was pregnant at that time. He said that he was scared seeing his wife's condition and his hands and legs became numb.

West Bengal-born former IAS officer Ashok Khemka is the only officer who has been transferred 57 times in 33 years. He came into national limelight in 2012 for cancelling the mutation of Robert Vadra-DLF land deal. He is known as an "honest officer" for taking a tough stand against corruption.(rr)

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