Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who has been deposing against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Kumar Modi, again figures on the list of defaulters displayed on the Home Ministry's official website.
The list, which has names of nearly one-sixth of sanctioned strength of 3,393 officers, also names senior officers, including Director General rank officers Jyothi Swarup Pandey of Uttarakhand and controversial Deputy Inspector General A K Upadhay, a 1976-batch IPS officer from Odhisa, who have not submitted their IPR for 2011.
Uttar Pradesh tops the list of defaulting IPS officers as 81 of a sanctioned strength of 317 have not submitted the list whereas Odisha has an outstanding of only eight IPS officers out of 107, who have failed to provide the information.
Among other states there are, 76 of Karnataka, 33 of Jharkhand, 29 of Andhra Pradesh, 26 of Jammu and Kashmir, 23 each of Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh, 20 of Himachal Pradesh, 18 of Gujarat and 17 of Tamil Nadu.
The IPS officers have earlier been complaining that they submit their IPRs in time but the state governments did not send them to the Union Home Ministries. MORE
