Even as the suspicious death of a Karnataka cadre IAS officer Anurag Tiwari under mysterious circumstances in Uttar Pradesh is till haunting the bureaucracy, now a senior Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) Officer has filed a complaint with lokayukta on Wednesday alleging harassment by senior IAS officers. In a first of its kind of complaint K Mathai, a known up right officer, named three IAS officers for harassing him in his complaint to lokayukta.
Mathi’s complaint comes close on the heels Tiwari’s death near a State guest house in lucknow on May 9. Tiwari’s family had alleged that he was harassed by his senior IAS officers.
Mathai, in his complaint filed with lokayukta Justice Vishwanath Shetty, named IAS officers Ramana Reddy (Principal Secretary Revenue), (Dr) Kalpana (Mission director Sakala), Dr TK Anil Kumar (Principal Secretary DPAR) and lakshminarayana( secretary PWD) for harassing him. He also alleged senior officers were involved in Mafia and not allowing others to work honestly.
Speaking to reporters after filing the complaint, Mathai said that the trouble started to him after he exposed Rs 2000 crore loss to Bruhut Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) due to Advertisement Mafia thriving and no official action were initiated on his report. “Even the government accepted the report and it was referred to CID for investigation. But the top officers instead blamed me and slapped me with notices . I have suffered because of this.”
“I tried to meet Chief Minister Siddaramaiah but in vain. Once again I will try and I am confident of getting justice from him. lokayukta has also assured to take action as per law and I have full faith on him,” he added.
K Mathai a serving senior KAS officer had exposed the hoarding scam in BBMP and a multi crore scam in allotment of sites in Mandya Urban Development Authority has now come out against senior IAS officers for harassing him. Mathai, currently the Administrative Officer and undersecretary has earlier written letters to chief minister law minister about the harassment. He was transferred several time from one department to other.