Ramanand Tiwari, Maharashtra Information Commissioner, whose suspension was recommended by the government in connection with the Adarsh Housing Society scam, met Governor K. Sankaranarayanan here on Sunday.
He was one of the two retired IAS officers who were asked to step down. The other, Subhash Lalla, resigned early this month.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Mr. Tiwari denied he had offered his resignation. Asked whether the Governor asked him to put in his papers, he said, “No.” “I told him my side of the story and the Governor gave me a patient hearing. The rest of the interaction is privileged communication.”
As a Commission of Enquiry had already been set up, any other action before the culmination of the probe would be unfair, Mr. Tiwari said.
“I am willing to face any enquiry,” he said. “The media made me out to be the main culprit, but I deny it. No enquiry has said I am the main culprit. So, this inference is wrong.”
Fielding questions on his son Onkar's ownership of a flat in Adarsh, Mr. Tiwari said, “My son has a flat. But to say that because he has a flat I am the culprit is wrong.”
