Why Modi Govt Sits On Some Ias Resignations, While Others Are Accepted In Days theprint.in

The Modi government has not accepted the resignations of three disgruntled officers who controversially quit the premier Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in the last 10 months over disagreements with the actions of the government.

This includes Shah Faesal, an IAS officer of the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir cadre who resigned in January to float a political party, multiple sources told ThePrint.
The others are Kannan Gopinathan, a 2012-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre who resigned on 23 August, and S. Sasikanth Senthil, a 2006-batch officer of the Karnataka cadre who put in his papers on 6 September.

Faesal now leads the J&K People’s Party. He has been in detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) since August when the Modi government scrapped Article 370 and stripped the erstwhile J&K state of its special status.

“It has been over 10 months, and Faesal’s resignation has not been accepted by the government… He is technically an employee of the Indian government even though he is a politician now,” said an IAS officer of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir cadre.