Sher Singh (IAS)
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Sher Singh is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), noted for his research on the Mughal emperor Babar (also Babur), revealing the latter as a secular figure, and writing that the Babri mosque at Ayodhya had been constructed sixteen years before Babar was born. His research was conducted before the 1992 riots in Ayodhya.
[edit] The Book
Sher Singh's book The Secular Emperor Babar, co-authored with Surinder Kaur and Tapan Sanyal, presented Babar as a tolerant figure, contrary to the conventional view of Babar as an intolerant fanatic.
[edit] The Case
In 1994, the Government of India filed a chargesheet against him, claiming he had violated the All India Service rules 3(1) and 6(2), and suspended him concurrently. Two investigatory committees were appointed the same year.
On 11 January 2000, the committees declared him guilty as charged, and on 22 November 2000, he was dismissed from service.
Following further legal appeal from the defendant, the Central Administrative Tribunal confirmed him guilty. The case was finally brought to the Calcutta High Court, which stated that the defendant had not been secured all legal rights of which he had been the rightful claimant.
On 19 February 2006, Calcutta High Court judges Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice K. K. Prasad dismissed all charges brought against Singh by the Government of India.
The verdict includes, besides said dismissal of charges, full compensation to be granted to Singh by the Government of India, along with availing him of his full rights and benefits as an IAS officer after retirement. The Government of India was granted two months' time to act upon this verdict.
