Shimla, Sept. 7 -- Chief secretary Prabodh Saxena was granted extension on request of the state government citing "public interest".

This was stated by the Union of India while responding to the PIL filed by petitioner Atul Sharma seeking cancellation of the government's March 28, 2025, order granting Prabodh Saxena a six-month extension as chief secretary, despite a pending CBI chargesheet against him.

The Union government had told the high court that chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu had sent a request for recommending the grant of extension in service to Saxena, who was serving as chief secretary to the Government of Himachal Pradesh for a period of one year.

Prabodh Saxena, the 1990-batch officer, was given a six-month extensio...