BENGALURU: Senior IPS officer and former police commissioner Bhaskar Rao on Thursday announced voluntary retirement from service, ending 31 years of his career as a cop.
An IPS officer of the 1990 batch, Rao became the 35th Bengaluru police commissioner on August 2, 2019 and held the position till July 31, 2020. Presently the additional director general of police (ADGP), railways, he still has three years of service left.
Rao said he felt the government sidelined him, making it difficult for him to continue in the service. “My conscience doesn’t permit me to continue the service in such conditions. When my services are not considered in the way they should have been, I will be a burden to the government. Hence, I made the decision to call it a day,” he said.
Asked if he would join politics, Rao said: “I don’t have any such plans as of now. But I am a firm believer of the saying that God has his own plans for each individual in his own way.”
