Bengaluru: Senior IPS officer, Bhaskar Rao currently serving as the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Railways in Karnataka has sought voluntary retirement from service (VRS) citing personal reasons on Thursday.
Mr. Rao, a 1990 batch IPS officer from the Karnataka cadre, has applied for VRS three years prior to his retirement age. Formerly, he also served as the Bengaluru City Police Commissioner and was later appointed ADGP, Karnataka State Reserve Police & Internal Security division. A source confirmed that he had submitted his resignation to DGP &IGP Praveen Sood & Chief Secretary P Ravi Kumar.
It has been speculated by sources that Mr. Rao might join politics and is preparing to contest the 2023 Assembly Elections from Basavanagudi constituency, currently held by BJP MLA Ravi Subrahmanya, uncle of Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya.
Earlier, in 2019, Mr. Rao was in news after he filed a protest memo against a CBI probe report on an audio leak of an official phone conversation, allegedly between Mr. Rao &Faraz Ahmed, a power broker with links to the Congress, to the media.
