The coveted chief information commissioner's post in Jammu and Kashmir went to GR Sofi, presently chief commissioner, Income Tax, Amritsar region. Sofi, an Indian Revenue Service officer of 1977 batch will retire shortly.
The special investigation team, looking into two fresh FIRs filed against former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, on Friday said it will not arrest the disgraced officer at this stage as it would mean pre-empting a possible Central Bureau of Invesigation probe in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.
Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary B.R.Kundal is learnt to have resigned from his job, to join active politics in the state and begin it on a high note with induction into the state cabinet.