Inbasagaran dismissed

By K. T. Sangameswaran

CHENNAI, JUNE 4. Mr. K. Inbasagaran, an IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, who was convicted by a special court on corruption charges, was ``dismissed from service'' a couple of days prior to his retirement. In February last year, Mr. Inbasagaran was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 5,000 in the Rs. 54.40-lakh disproportionate wealth case against him.

Official sources told TheHindu that the officer was to have retired on May 31 and the State order dated May 29, enclosed the Union Government's order which said the penalty of ``dismissal from service'' in terms of rule (ix) of Rule 6 (1) of the All- India Services (discipline and appeals) rules 1969 was being imposed on him.

Meanwhile, the AIADMK Government revoked the suspension orders passed against Mr. N. Haribhaskar, a former Chief Secretary, Mr. C. Ramachandran, a former Principal Secretary, and Mr. G. Veeraraghavan and Mr. E. Hariharane, former Additional Directors- General of Police, allowing them to retire on the respective dates of superannuation.

The officers were suspended during the DMK rule on corruption charges. The Government order with regard to Mr. Haribhaskar and Mr. Ramachandran said the Union Department of Personnel passed orders that their suspension could not be treated as continuing beyond the dates of retirement - June 30, 1996 for the former Chief Secretary and May 31, 1996 for Mr. Ramachandran. Hence, the suspension was revoked and the two were deemed to have retired. Similarly, the orders of suspension of Mr. Hariharane and Mr. Veeraraghavan were revoked and they were permitted to retire on the superannuation dates - October 31, 2000 for the former and January 31 this year for the latter - without prejudice to the criminal cases/departmental proceedings against them.

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