IAS officer Sanjeev Khirwar has been accused of vacating a stadium to walk his dog and transferred to Ladakh. His wife, Rinku Dhugga, an IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, was spotted walking with her husband in the stadium she was transferred to Arunachal Pradesh.

The Thyagraj Stadium in Delhi was reportedly closed for all sports activities before its usual time so that Khirwar, Delhi's Principal Secretary, could take his dog for a walk there. As per the News18 reports, The Ministry of Home Affairs has looked into Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar's report. 

Athletes and coaches at the Delhi government-run Thyagraj Stadium had complained that they were being forced to wind-up training before 7 pm over the past few months so that the IAS officer could walk his dog at the facility. Khirwar has denied that he never interrupted practice at the stadium.

The officer is a 1994-batch Indian Administrative Officer of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and Union Territories) cadre. Apart from Delhi and Chandigarh, he has been posted in Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Khirwar, 50, is one of the senior-most bureaucrats posted in the Delhi government. All district magistrates (11) and sub-divisional magistrates posted in Delhi report to him as divisional commissioner. He was posted as Delhi's divisional commissioner during the pandemic, a senior position in the capital's bureaucracy after chief secretary and additional chief secretary.