Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi owns a mango orchard in Uttar Pradesh, in addition to flats in Panchkula and Gurugram. The state’s director general of police (DGP), Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor, holds land across Haryana and Punjab—in Mohali, Kapurthala, and Bathinda. Kapoor’s wife owns a house in Gurugram, purchased in 2003 for Rs 4 crore, which currently generates an annual income of Rs 1.6 crore.
These annual disclosures, mandatory under the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964, are aimed at promoting transparency and accountability among public servants. The declarations cover immovable assets owned by officers and their immediate family members, and the current batch was last updated this month.
Property returns of other IAS and IPS officers have also been made public on a government website. However, ThePrint has focused on the senior-most officials of the civil and police services.
According to his returns, chief secretary Rastogi, a 1990-batch IAS officer, owns a half-share in ancestral agricultural land measuring 2.311 hectares in Udhampur village, Uttar Pradesh. The land hosts a mango orchard and provides an annual income of Rs 3.25 lakh.
“The property is inherited; hence its value has never been assessed,” Rastogi mentioned in the column for current value.
Rastogi has also declared a half-share in a residential plot in Sector-4, MDC, Panchkula, Haryana, purchased for Rs 330 lakh plus registration costs. This property is jointly held with his wife, while the other half is in his mother’s name. It does not yield any annual income and has no assessed present value.
Additionally, he owns a four-bedroom residential flat in Gurugram City, Haryana, purchased for Rs 170 lakh, jointly with his wife. The present value has not been assessed, but it generates a monthly income of Rs 54,450. The flat was funded through proceeds from the sale of their previous residence in Sector-10, Panchkula, with acquisition details submitted in 2021.
DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor, an IPS officer of the 1990-batch in the Haryana cadre, submitted his return as of 1 January this year. His declared properties include a plot in Phagwara, Punjab, jointly held with his mother and brother, inherited from forefathers; and another plot in Tejli village, Jagadhari, Yamunanagar, Haryana, inherited from his grandmother and father.
His wife owns a house in Sector 82, Gurugram, purchased from the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) on 28 March 2003 for approximately Rs 4 crore, which presently yields an income of Rs 1.6 crore per annum. The current value remains unassessed.
Kapoor has also declared a flat of 1,990 square feet in Sector-111, Gurugram, purchased in his wife’s name on 15 December 2011 for around Rs 60 lakh. It is currently valued at Rs 2 crore and does not yield any income.
Another property listed is an apartment in GH 384, Sector 2 MDC, Panchkula, solely owned and purchased on 15 September 2023 for Rs 3 crore. Its present value and income remain unspecified.
Kapoor further declared a two-kanal plot acquired in 2006 for Rs 10.50 lakh through a police welfare cooperative society in Bathinda. Additionally, his wife holds a 500-square-yard plot, purchased in 2011 for Rs 39 lakh via a group housing society membership.
Among other senior bureaucrats is Sudhir Rajpal, a 1990-batch IAS officer and currently the additional chief secretary (health). Rajpal owns residential properties in Gurugram, Panchkula, Kolkata, Hisar, and Delhi.
His Gurugram property includes a house on a 500-square-yard plot in DLF Phase-1, purchased in the 1980s and constructed with a government loan. The property is now valued at Rs 7.5 crore and fetches an annual rental income of Rs 18 lakh.
In Delhi, he owns a two-bedroom flat in Dwarka in his wife’s name, now worth Rs 1.5 crore. The building society membership was in her name prior to their marriage in October 1994. Rajpal has paid Rs 12.36 lakh in instalments over the years for this property.
He also owns a three-bedroom flat in Kolkata, acquired in 2005 and currently valued at Rs 50 lakh, generating an annual income of approximately Rs 3 lakh.
Another three-bedroom flat, jointly owned with his wife, is situated on the upscale Golf Course Extension Road in Gurugram. It was purchased for Rs 2 crore and yields an annual rental income of about Rs 6 lakh.
In Hisar, Rajpal owns a 92.25-square-metre plot allotted by the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran against acquired land from Vivek Cooperative Housing Society. He paid Rs 15.86 lakh for this plot.
He has also paid Rs 1.14 crore for a flat under construction in a group housing society for IAS and IPS officers in Sector 2, Mansa Devi Complex, Panchkula.
Sumita Misra, another 1990-batch IAS officer, and currently additional chief secretary (home), owns a builder’s floor in Hauz Khas, New Delhi, purchased in June 2024 using savings, mutual fund proceeds, a salary overdraft, and an interest-free loan from her family. It is now valued at Rs 3.51 crore and fetches an annual rental income of Rs 27.9 lakh.
Misra also owns a 250-square-yard house in DLF Hyde Park, New Chandigarh, bought for Rs 87.74 lakh in 2021 using proceeds from a flat sold in 2020. With a present value of Rs 1.25 crore, the house generates an annual income of Rs 3.60 lakh.
Additionally, she owns a 4,100-square-feet residential plot in Tiwarpur, Lucknow district, and a 300-square-metre plot in Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, both inherited from her mother in February 2020.
Another property includes a 1,010-square-metre plot purchased in 2010 for Rs 25.25 lakh. She also holds a plot worth Rs 1.5 crore (purchased for Rs 35 lakh in 2010) as a member of the Punjab IAS/PCS Group Housing Society.
Anand Mohan Sharan, also a 1990-batch senior IAS officer, owns a flat in Gurugram worth Rs 1.25 crore. It was acquired in 1995 for Rs 10.5 lakh through a housing society membership.
Raja Sekhar Vundru, the fifth IAS officer of the 1990 batch, owns a 260-square-metre residential plot in Amberpet village, Hyderabad, purchased by his parents. Although the date of purchase is not mentioned, Vundru states Rs 20,000 was spent at the time of acquisition. Its current value stands at Rs 20 lakh.
He also owns a 200-square-metre house in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Greater Noida, acquired on lease from the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority in 2003 for Rs 6 lakh. Constructed with a government loan and Rs 1.5 lakh for two rooms, the property is now valued at Rs 1 crore.
Among top IPS officers, Manoj Yadava, a 1988-batch officer and currently at the top of the state cadre list, owns 32 bighas of land in Tuamai village, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh. He inherited 16 bighas and received the remaining 16 as a gift from his elder brother. The property’s current value is Rs 32 lakh.
Yadava also jointly owns a 1,242-square-feet commercial shop in Gautam Buddha Nagar with his brother-in-law. It was bought in 2006 for Rs 96 lakh using a loan, which has since been repaid. The property is currently valued at Rs 1 crore.
Mohammad Akil, a 1989-batch IPS officer serving as DG (prisons), owns agricultural land worth Rs 7.5 crore and a 150-square-yard residential property valued at Rs 50 lakh, both located in Aligarh district, and both inherited.
Desh Raj Singh, a 1990-batch IPS officer and peer of DGP Kapoor, owns 30 acres of inherited agricultural land worth Rs 10.25 crore in Amroha district, Uttar Pradesh.
He has owned a 3,495-square-feet flat under construction since 2022 on Golf Course Road, valued at Rs 2.05 crore. He jointly owns it with his wife Mamta Singh, an ADGP in the Haryana Police. In another flat of similar size and location worth Rs 2.65 crore, Singh owns a 25 percent share, his wife owns another 25 percent, both having paid Rs 1.32 crore for their combined share.
(Edited by Radifah Kabir)
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I have seen many ips officers owning acres of land or farm houses near chd..but no one ask them how they are able to afford such lifestyle..these sharks are untouchable whereas if some small officer takes bribes then hez held accountable all his life