Things are getting increasingly difficult for Jharkhand's chief secretary and DGP. On January 17, when the state's assembly's budget session commenced, the opposition made a strong pitch for the removal of the two top officials. Standing at the Assembly entrance, Leader of the Opposition Hemant Soren and MLA's displayed banners reading 'Dismiss DGP, remove Chief secretary from her post". CS Rajbala Verma (IAS:1983: JH) is accused of doing nothing to prevent fraudulent withdrawals in the fodder scam from the Chaibasa treasury as the then Deputy Commissioner of West Singhbhum in the early 1990s. The CBI had served a notice on her in 2003 but she allegedly did not respond despite over 15 reminders. The state govt recently issued her a show-cause notice this month, the CS submitted a reply, and the state government is yet to decide on the matter. The state police chief D.K. Pandey (IPS:1983: JH) also finds himself in the eye of a political storm in connection with a shootout in 2015. The Jharkhand High Court had sought a reply from the state government on the Bakoria Maoist shootout case (2015).