Ranchi, May 29: Four government employees including former excise secretary cum excise commissioner Vinay Chaubey and joint excise commissioner Gajendra Singh have been suspended by the state government over a week after their arrest by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
The department of personnel and administrative reforms has issued a notification in this regard after the order of the Chief Minister.
Both the officers have been suspended from the date of arrest, May 20. However, this time the department has not made the suspension order public through IPRD.
It is known that ACB arrested Vinay Chaubey and Gajendra Singh on May 20 after interrogation in the liquor scam of about Rs 38 crore. Then the court sent them to Birsa Munda Central Jail in judicial custody. It is known that there is a provision to suspend any government employee in case he remains in custody for more than 48 hours.
The other two government officials who have been suspended include JIADA regional director and JSBCL’s then GM Sudhir Kumar and current GM Finance Sudhir Kumar Das.
Vinay Chaubey and Gajendra Singh are on ACB remand for two days. ACB officials questioned them on Thursday and will do on Friday. State Administrative Service officers Sudhir Kumar and Sudhir Kumar Das are in Ranchi’s Birsa Munda jail. ACB has so far arrested five accused in this case.
Vinay Chaubey and Gajendra Singh were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on May 20 after questioning. After this, JIADA’s regional director and JSBCL’s then GM Sudhir Kumar and GM Finance Sudhir Kumar Das and private company representative Neeraj were arrested on May 22.
