AP: Boobathi Babu goes on leave

HYDERABAD: Feeling humiliated by the state government deliberately posting an officer above him, senior IPS officer D Boobathi Babu, who is heading the liquor syndicate probe, has proceeded on a long leave.
Top sources said that after the government posted B Prasada Rao as Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) chief on Saturday, Boobathi Babu, who had been heading the bureau till then, is understood to have submitted a letter to chief secretary Pankaj Dwivedi the same day seeking permission to proceed on leave. Dwivedi is said to have sanctioned the leave without delay.
Though Babu’s move was not unexpected, sources said the government had left him with no other option as there is no post of additional DGP in the ACB. Thus posting Prasada Rao as ACB chief appears to have been a well-thought out strategy by the powers-that-be to keep Babu, who was going hammer and tongs in the liquor syndicate probe, under check.

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