This is probably the first time that 3 senior IAS officers have sought to quit the service within days of each other. The 3 officers are Renuka Kumar (1987 batch), Juthika Patankar (1988) and Vikas Gothalwal (2003). Renuka Kumar was due to retire from service on June 2023 and was repatriated to her parent cadre UP on July 28. She played a key role in the UP IAS Association campaign in the nineties to identify three most corrupt IAS officers in the state cadre. Sources in the know said that she was unwilling to return to Uttar Pradesh and applied for voluntary retirement. Juthika Patankar, who was also on deputation to the Centre, had worked as principal