Gopal Krishna Pillai or G. K. Pillai (born 30 Nov 1949) is an
Indian Administrative Service
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. Considered the premier civil service of India, the IAS is one of the three arms of the All India Services along with the Indian ...
(I.A.S) officer and the former
Home Secretary
The secretary of state for the Home Department, otherwise known as the home secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom. The home secretary leads the Home Office, and is responsible for all national s ...
in the Government of India. He studied at
Bishop Cotton Boys' School
Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for boarders and day scholars in Bangalore, India, founded in the memory of Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta. The school has been described as "The Eton of the East".
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, Bangalore and St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, and later obtained an M.Sc from IIT, Madras. He belongs to the Kerala cadre of the 1972 batch of I.A.S.
G.K. Pillai held diverse positions in the state government of Kerala such as:
* District Collector of Kollam from 1982 to 1985
* Special Secretary for Industries, especially the traditional industries of cashew, coir and handlooms
* Secretary of Health
* Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Kerala.
Media spotlight
In February 2016, Pillai claimed to media that there was political interference in the controversial
Ishrat Jahan case
The Ishrat Jahan case is an ongoing case where officers of the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch and members of the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of Ahmedabad are accused of fatally shooting four people unlawfully on 15 June 2004 in an " en ...
.
Pillai's claims were corroborated by another former official in March 2016, bringing the Ishrat Jahan case into media spotlight once again.
References
An exclusive interview with G K Pillai, Ex-Home Secretary of India. BUREAUCRACY INDIA, Retrieved 2011-06-30
External links
https://www.adaniports.com/About-us/Board-of-Directors/Gopal-Krishna-Pillai
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1949 births
Living people
Bishop Cotton Boys' School alumni
Indian Administrative Service officers
Indian Home Secretaries