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Manoje Nath

Manoje Nath is a retired police officer, author, blogger and commentator in India. After serving in the IPS for 39 years, Manoje Nath retired to a life of writing extensively, on a wide variety of concerns, on his blog, and on the editorial pages of several Indian newspapers and Magazines.

The Patna High Court asked him to investigate several important cases during his tenure .Among many other important cases,  it asked him to investigate  counterfeit currency cases and  directed the government to create a special cell to be placed under him for curbing this menace. He has lectured to IAS officers in the National Academy of Administration Mussorie on economic crimes and has participated in seminars in the National Police Academy Hyderabad  and other elite police institutions. He has written  for the top journals and news papers of the country on various subjects including  economic crimes.

Police Career Manoje Nath was just over 20 years when he wrote the Indian Police Service (IPS) exam in 1973, and ranked third in the country and first in Bihar.

In 1980, as SP Bokaro in undivided Bihar

As Bokaro SP in 1980, Nath busted a Rs 70-crore corruption scam, and arrested the then Managing Director of Bokaro Steel. Within 24 hours, Nath was transferred, after only four months in office. At the time of supersession of cooperative bodies in 1988, he was posted as SP (cooperatives) with a mandate to eliminate the cooperative mafia.

When riots broke out in Araria in 1992, he was airdashed to the area as a troubleshooter.

During RJD's rule, he took on graft in the taxes department.

As DG (vigilance) in the electricity board under the Nitish Kumar government, he pursued a graft allegation case against then state electricity board chairman Swapan Mukherjee. But Nath was immediately transferred from his position. For the next ten months, the cop had to make do without a vehicle and a telephone as he was made to wait for a posting. A departmental proceeding for disobedience was also initiated which the Patna high court later quashed.

Under CM Nitish Kumar's rule, he was transferred four times within a year from one insignificant post to another.

The Patna high court hand-picked Nath on at least four occasions to investigate important cases, including the case of Shikha Gupta, wife of Gaya SP Anurag Gupta, who had topped the MA (history) examination of Gaya-headquartered Magadh University without writing seven of the eight papers.

Also the Patna High Court's behest, Nath submitted a report to it on "What ails higher education in Bihar". The Patna High Court also asked him to investigate counterfeit currency cases and directed the government to create a special cell to be placed under him for curbing this menace.

Nath has lectured to IAS officers in the National Academy of Administration Mussorie on economic crimes and has lectured at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad and other elite police institutions.

Promoted to the rank of director general (DG) in 2007, Nath was overlooked repeatedly by the Government while appointing the Director General of Police, and repeatedly superceded by junior officers.

After 39 years in service, he retired from Bihar police in 2012 as one of the longest-serving IPS officers but without being assigned the job of state's top cop.