Scam in MP: Bhopal (State Bureau). The difficulties of M. Kalidurai, the IFS officer who returned to duty after seventeen months, may increase now. A departmental inquiry is going on against him in the grant scam in the Horticulture Department. He has been sent a charge sheet in May 2021. To which the answer has not come yet. Because of this the action was being affected. Now they have to answer. Based on this action will be taken. At the same time, he will also be questioned in the case of missing. He was telling the top officials of the department to be ill as the reason for his absence. Now they will have to present proof of this also. Kalidurai is not the first officer in the forest department who has been missing for a long time. Before him, IFS HVS Hotagi has gone missing twice for a long time.
In the case of missing from the workplace for a long time while posted in Betul, information was published in the newspapers to trace Hotgi. While living in Jabalpur, there was a time to publish the information once again on his disappearance, but he had reached the office before that. The same happened in the case of Kalidurai.
Kalidurai is an accused in the grant scam of the horticulture department’s polyhouse construction and sprinkler distribution scheme. This scam happened during his directorship. He was issued a charge sheet in the case in January 2021, but was able to reach him through email in July 2021. The department is still awaiting their reply in this matter. On the other hand, Kalidurai will take over from Monday. He is posted as Chief Forest Conservator in the Coordination Branch.
Posted By: Prashant Pandey