The Hindu 30.11.2011
MCC Commissioner issues notices to three engineers
Mangalore City Corporation Commissioner Harish Kumar K. said on Tuesday that he had issued show-cause notice to three engineers of the corporation in connection with the alleged manual scavenging reported in the city recently.
Mr. Kumar told presspersons on the sidelines of the meeting of the corporation council that notices were served on M. Ramesh, Executive Engineer; R. Ganeshan, Assistant Executive Engineer; and Anil Kumar, Junior Engineer; on November 26.
The Commissioner said of them show cause notices had been issued to Mr. Ganeshan and Mr. Anil Kumar for the second time on November 28 as replies given by them to the first notices were not satisfactory.
He said the police had registered a suo motu case on the incident. The two engineers were given show- cause notices for the second time as there were contradictions in the replies given by them when compared to contents in the First Information Report filed by the police.
Mr. Kumar said he had asked the Joint Commissioner of the corporation Srikant Rao to submit a report. He would act based on the report and replies received from the two engineers.
The Commissioner said the contractor who had employed the worker who was allegedly made to do manual scavenging had filed a complaint with the police stating that a photograph of the worker doing manual scavenging had been forcibly taken by someone.
Meanwhile, the Joint Commissioner had submitted his report to the Commissioner in a sealed cover late on Tuesday, sources in the corporation told The Hindu .
