3 officials told to explain delay in nod to try IAS officers in corpn tender case

FUMING over the "substantial unexplained delay" in obtaining sanction from the Centre for prosecuting two IAS officers in a case over alleged irregularities committed in awarding tenders in the Chennai and Coimbatore corporations when SP Velumani was Municipal Administration Minister during the AIADMK government, the Madras High Court on Monday impleaded three top bureaucrats and directed them to file an explanation for the delay.

- R SIVAKUMAR @ Chennai

The vigilance commissioner, the public secretary and the director of DVAC were impleaded by Justice N Anand Venkatesh in the case.

He criticised the public secretary for sitting on the files sent by the vigilance commissioner without moving them for getting sanction required for prosecuting IAS officers KS Kandasamy and K Vijaya Karthikeyan who had served as deputy commissioner (works), GCC, and commissioner, Coimbatore Corporation, during that period.