Sugumar Among 69 who retired on June 30

Indian Express: Coimbatore: Wednesday, 01 July 2015.

Executive Engineer K Sugumar, who has been accused of causing a loss of nearly `14 crore to the City Corporation, retired from duty on Tuesday.

Along with Sugumar, 68 other Corporation employees, most of them sanitary workers, also retired from duty on Tuesday. A function was held in this regard at the Corporation’s main office on Tuesday evening.

Subramanian, a retired superintendent of the Corporation who has levelled charges against  Sugumar, criticised the decision allowing him to retire.

“The Corporation’s Public Information Officer had informed me in an RTI reply that there were 122 Local Audit objections pending against Sugumar on June 26. It is impossible to clear these within four days. The retirement is against the principle natural justice,” Subramanian said.

Subramanian had petitioned Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and the Directorate of Municipal Administration demanding that Sugumar should not be allowed to retire. He also said that the government should recover nearly `14 crore from Sugumar, who had as the authorised official made illegal payments for various works of the Corporation.