Shakuntala Jakhu was a 1978 batch IAS officer and the former Chief Secretary[1] to the Government of Haryana. She was the fourth female chief secretary of Haryana.[2][3]
She is married to a 1979 batch IAS officer, Ramendra Jakhu,[4] and is a close relative to former Union Minister and Lok Sabha MP Kumari Selja.[5]
Jakhu was among three Haryana cadre bureaucrats whose names were in the scam of Associate Journals Limited (AJL), publisher of the National Herald newspaper, despite getting a clean chit from the State Vigilance Bureau (SVB) in 2016.[6][7]