NEW DELHI: With Madhya Pradesh government yet to act on the Election Commission’s December 16 direction for lodging criminal action against three IPS officers and a state police officer based on a CBDT report indicating their alleged role in unauthorised cash transactions during 2019 Lok Sabha poll, the EC has decided to call top officials of the state in January for a status update.
“EC shall be calling MP chief secretary and addl chief secretary (home) for a meeting sometime before January 10, 2021 to know what has been done, is being done or shall be done to implement its direction regarding the officers,” Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora told TOI on Tuesday.
EC had last week, acting on a report from the Central Board of Direct Taxes pointing to prima facie role of public/government servants in unauthorised cash transactions in MP during general elections, directed the state chief electoral officer to lodge a criminal case against Sushovan Banerjee (IPS: 1989 batch), Sanjay Mane (IPS: 1989 batch); V Madhu Kumar (IPS: 1991 batch); and Arun Mishra (MP police) “for violations of extant electoral and other laws”.
EC had shared the report with the state chief electoral officer with direction to lodge criminal action before the economic offences wing against the four officers.