The Maharashta government has reinstated two senior IAS officers who were suspended after being chargesheeted in the Adarsh scam two years back.
Former Mumbai Municipal Commissioner J.M. Phatak and former state finance secretary Pradeep Vyas are now awaiting their new postings. Both the officials had earlier been >arrested in the case. At the time of the arrest, Mr. Phatak was serving as a member secretary of a statutory development board while Mr. Vyas was posted as finance secretary.
“Since the officials have already been chargesheeted by the CBI and two years have passed since their >suspension , the government decided to reinstate them. The departmental inquiries against them will continue,” state Chief Secretary J.S. Saharia said.
Mr. Vyas was accused of accepting false income documents from prospective members of Adarsh Society when he was posted as the Collector of Mumbai. His wife, IAS officer Seema Vyas was later given a flat in the building, allegedly in return for this favour.Mr. Phatak is accused of illegally clearing additional height for the building without referring it to the civic body’s high rise committee. His son Kanishka Phatak later got a flat in the building.
Besides being >chargesheeted by the CBI, the two bureaucrats were also indicted by the Adarsh Commission of Inquiry for “giving permissions as quid pro quo ”, in exchange for favour granted.
