Rinku Singh Rahi, a PCS officer from Uttar Pradesh, who is in the news for fighting corruption, has passed the UPSC exam. Rinku Rahi is known for her honest and sharp-tempered image. During his tenure, when he started investigating the scholarship scam worth crores of rupees, the mafia was behind him. There was such a deadly attack on him that the shape of his face changed. In March 2009, seven bullets were fired at him by the mafia.
Who is Rinku Singh Rahi?: Rinku Rahi is a 2007 batch PCS officer from Uttar Pradesh. After passing the PCS examination of UPPSC, he was posted as Social Welfare Officer in Muzaffarnagar in the year 2008-09. During posting in Muzaffarnagar he exposed corruption of more than 100 crores.
Eyesight lost, ears damaged: He was just getting into the bottom of the scam that he was fired upon. Rinku Rahi was hit by seven bullets in this firing. The face deteriorated, one ear was damaged and one eye lost its sight. He was hospitalized for several months. According to Rinku, when he came back after recovering, his colleagues did not treat him well, the senior officers did not cooperate.
Let us tell you that Rinku comes from a very simple and poor. In an interview, he had told that his childhood was spent in extreme deprivation, only then it came to mind that if the officers were honest, then we would not have got the benefit of government facilities, then our situation would not have been like this.
“My punishment never stopped”: Rahi tells TOI that she was attacked during Mayawati government’s tenure. “I was sent to a psychiatric hospital for protesting corruption during the Samajwadi Party regime,” he said. Rahi told that the governments in UP kept coming and going but their ‘punishment’ (trouble) never stopped. Rahi says that he has now learned how to handle the situation.
683rd rank in UPSC: Rinku Rahi has cleared UPSC exam and secured 683rd rank. Although Rinku Rahi is now 40 years old. UPSC has given age relaxation to certain categories of people which helped Rahi to appear in UPSC exam even at the age of 40. “During my exams, I was not fighting the system but the system was fighting me,” Rahi said.