Civic body asks UT to probe JE's complaint against mayor

CHANDIGARH: The municipal corporation (MC) has sent a complaint of a junior engineer against mayor Rajesh Kumar alias Kalia to the UT administration for inquiry.

Junior engineer Suresh Chand posted with building and roads wing of the engineering department in February alleged the mayor had threatened to transfer him after he refused to carry out "personal work" at his house. "The mayor asked me to get painting and distempering carried out at his house. When I refused to do so, as the work cost more than Rs 2 lakh, he threatened to transfer me," Chand had said in his complaint to the MC commissioner.

The MC has now not found any officer suitable or competent to initiate the probe against the mayor. The move to send the case to UT has come following consultations with it a few days back. "We first tried to start something on our end. But since the allegations were in writing and of serious nature, we were not liable to probe the matter. We discussed the issue with the UT. Now, we have prepared a file and sent it to it to take a call on the matter," said a senior officer of the MC. Sources said the inquiry officer will have to call both the parties to record the statements. In this case, none of the MC officers was suitable to call the mayor to record his statement.