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Importance of sons-in-law

If you are a top ranking civil servant and happen to be the son-in-law of a Supreme Court judge, then imagine the guest list of those who attend even a mundan (hair shaving) ceremony. Yes, even the Prime Minister and Home Minister were there.

Lutyens Delhi’s power circle was abuzz after a tweet from a lawyer about the high-profile mundan. Those in attendance were President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and a number of chief ministers, among others. “Apparently this blue-eyed Joint Secretary is the son in law of a senior SC judge and the mundan ceremony of his daughter was at the residence of that Judge!” the prominent lawyer tweeted. The civil servant in question is Diwakar Nath Mishra, a 2000-batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre and Joint Secretary in the Commerce Ministry. He had worked in the petroleum ministry before his current assignment and was the Secretary, Oil Industry Development Board. He is the son-in-law of Supreme Court Judge, Justice Arun Kumar Mishra.

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