Shakuntala Jakhu

Shakuntala Jakhu was a 1978 batch IAS officer and the former Chief Secretary to the Government of Haryana. She was the fourth female chief secretary of Haryana.

Personal life
She is married to a 1979 batch IAS officer, Ramendra Jakhu, and is a close relative to former Union Minister and Lok Sabha MP Kumari Selja.

Controversy
Jakhu was among three Haryana cadre bureaucrats whose names were in the scam of Associate Journals Limited (AJL), publisher of the National Herald newspaper, despite getting a clean chit from the State Vigilance Bureau (SVB) in 2016.