Adarsh case: 2 babus reinstated after 2 yrs - Times of India

MUMBAI: Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday reinstated bureaucrats J M Phatak and Pradeep Vyas, who were involved in the Adarsh case. "We have reinstated them. According to the rules, it is wrong to keep any officer under suspension beyond two years. We will give them an assignment, which will not come in the way of the departmental probe in the Adarsh case," Chavan said.

Phatak (1978 IAS batch) and Vyas (1989 IAS batch) were suspended on March 22, 2012 and later arrested by the CBI. Phatak's son was a member of the Adarsh housing society, Vyas had secured a membership in the name of his wife, Seema, also a bureaucrat. The CBI's contention was that Phatak and Vyas had misused their position to obtain the membership of the society for their son and wife.

Phatak was the then civic chief and Vyas had been the collector. The state had established a judicial commission to investigate the case. Initially, the report was rejected but following Congress V-P Rahul Gandhi's intervention, it was accepted. The state cabinet decided not to conduct a probe against politicians but a departmental probe was proposed against bureaucrats.