P. J. Thomas

Quick Facts

Full Name	P. J. Thomas
Occupation	Civil Servant
Date Of Birth	Jan 13, 1951(1951-01-13)
Age	73
Birthplace	Alappuzha
Country	India
Horoscope	Capricorn

P. J. Thomas Biography

P. J. Thomas is one of the most popular and richest Civil Servant who was born on January 13, 1951 in Alappuzha, India. Thomas is from a middle class family in the Alappuzha district. A bright student in his school days, Thomas is a post-graduate in Physics and later completed his Masters in Economics. Thomas was admitted to IAS Indian Administrative Service as one of the top performers at the Civil Services Examination in the year 1973. His older sister, Johny Joseph also works as an IAS officer. In his capacity as IAS officer, Thomas is a key IAS official, Thomas has held important tasks throughout Kerala for the position of the Chief Election officer of the state, as well as Secretary in the Finance, Industry, Agriculture as well as Law and Justice and Human Development Departments. The chief electoral officer Thomas was instrumental in the introduction of an electronic voting machines in every stage of the election. He was the director who founded of the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. He was named an official of Kerala chief secretary in the year 2007 and then transferred into the Central Government as Secretary at the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs in January 2009. Then he was able becoming secretary for telecom. Telecom Secretary.

P.J. Thomas was appointed chief Vigilance Commissioner on September, 2010 through the president of India upon the advice of an High Powered Committee (HPC) which was headed by the prime minister of India. The appointment of Thomas as the new CVC was a subject of controversy following Sushma Swaraj who was a member of a three-member selection committees, objected to the appointment of Thomas by citing the charge-sheet pending in Thomas’s name. A public interest lawsuit was brought with the Centre for Public Interest Litigation and the HPC decision was placed under the an appeal by the Supreme Court.

In 1996 the LDF government took over and revived the case through the filing of an FIR be brought against Karunakaran as well as six others in different sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Thomas was not included in the FIR because Thomas was not involved in the making of decisions or the fixing of prices. A year later, on the 8th of February, 1998 Thomas’s name was added to the FIR under the accused was not named. 8. The state government was then in contact with for approval from the Government of India in November 1999 seeking permission to prosecute Thomas for alleged violations of the Prevention of Corruption Act alleged against Thomas. The Chief Vigilance Commissioner however, declined to approve the sanction because the information on file did not reveal any criminal convictions committed of Thomas. Trial court judge not able to conduct the trial because of the lack of sanction to prosecute of Karunakaran who was elected to the Parliament as well as other government officials. In the aftermath, the state government appealed to the High Court, and High Court permitted the trial to proceed without the obligatory sanction to prosecute the defendant. The trial was halted when Karunakaran opposed the High Court’s decision in the Supreme Court, and in 2003 in 2003, the Supreme Court of India upheld the stay of proceedings in the case. The case remained in the hands of the Supreme Court for more than 10 years, before the suspension was granted following Karunakaran’s death in. The lengthy time in the case eventually ended up being damaging to Thomas since his selection to the position of CVC was fraught with controversy about whether the pending charge-sheet was considered in The High Powered Committee. But, a segment of the media claimed it was not the case that Thomas is not accountable for any wrongdoing due to the fact that the LDF government of 2006 could not have appointed him to the top position in the civil service of the state chief secretary for Kerala. Government of Kerala.

P. J. Thomas Net Worth

P. J. Thomas is one of the richest Civil Servant from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, P. J. Thomas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Polayil Joseph Thomas was a batch 1973 Indian Administrative Service officer from Kerala cadre. He was appointed fourteenth Chief Vigilance Officer of India with an appointment which was subject to the Supreme Court’s review, only to be quashed by the Court because it was “non-est” in law. The appointment and subsequent annulment led to a number of public debates regarding the criteria used to determine eligibility for the CVC’s appointment as well as judicial activism, and how the the mainstream media to conceal crucial facts that could be evidence of his otherwise impeccable track record in the civil service.

The purported scam of the import of palmolein oils took place in 1992, while K.Karunakaran was Governor of Kerala. The Kerala government decided to import Palm oil from Power and Energy Limited, which is a company with its headquarters in Singapore. The price on the imported oil was set to be 405 dollars per metric tonnes. It was approved for import in the year 1992 however the opposition party, LDF, raised a protest over the transaction and claimed a loss of over 20 million to the state budget and comparing prices of the import to the price at the international market for palm oil, which was 392.25 USD per ton. The job of Thomas, then in charge for Food and Civil Supplies, was to translate a cabinet-approved decision into an official government order and then communicate the order for Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation. Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation.

On 3 March 2011, the Supreme Court quashed the appointment of Thomas as the Chief Vigilance Commissioner, noting that the HPC did not consider the relevant materials on the pending charge-sheet. Though Thomas resigned after the Court’s observation, he asked the President of India to seek a review petition against the court’s judgement on various grounds, including the constitutionality of the judgment. The basis for the request for the review petition, according to Thomas’s lawyer, Wills Mathews, was that the three judges’ judgement on the CVC is not legally valid because Article 145 (3) says that the minimum number of judges required for interpretation of Constitution is five, which in effect makes the Supreme Court judgement null and void. Mathews also questioned whether the court had exercised jurisdiction on an issue in which it was not having the jurisdiction. He claimed that the Supreme Court has the power to initiate the proceeding for the removal of the CVC, only on a reference made by the President, and as such there was no reference of the President of India in the present matter. Thomas submitted that quashing the appointment resulted in miscarriage of justice not only for Thomas but to all civil servants of the country ‘because the mere lodging of an FIR is sufficient to stop an honest officer from taking charge of the coveted post and shall spoil his career prospects’. The President of India however refused to consider Thomas’s request for the review petition and Pradeep Kumar was appointed as the new CVC.

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Facts & Trivia

P. Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Servant. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. P. J. Thomas celebrates birthday on January 13 of every year.

Who are PJ and Thomas?

PJ and Thomas
Born| Timothy Paul Jasper McKay: May 24, 1986 Thomas Garrett: March 30, 1991 Cleveland, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation| Internet celebrities television personalities interior designers
Spouse(s)| Married in 2015
Children| 3

What town do PJ and Thomas live?

Property Brothers, make way for “The Property Lovers”, as PJ and Thomas McKay call themselves. The married couple fixes up houses as a team in their town of Chattanooga, Tennessee , sharing details, photos, and videos on their Tumblr, YouTube channel, and shared Instagram account.

When did PJ and Thomas get married?

Thomas proposed to PJ on Christmas Day in 2014, and PJ returned the favor on Thomas’ birthday the following March. We were married in October of 2015 , another reason we love Fall more than any other season!