On November 27th, a tweet by Ashok Khemka, principal secretary of the Science and Technology Department, caught the attention of netizens and media, though one cannot call it entirely surprising. A senior IAS officer of the Haryana cadre, Khemka was already known to be Haryana's second-most transferred bureaucrat (52 times in his 27 years of service) and shared news of his 53rd transfer through this tweet. https://twitter.com/AshokKhemka_IAS/status/1199625574173462528 Khemka, born in Kolkata** and an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, shot to limelight through a series of exposés, including the Robert Vadra DLF land grab scam, Sonepat-Kharkhoda IMT land scam case and Garhi…
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