Overview
- Ujjain Divisional Commissioner Ashish Singh suspended SDM Anand Malviya with immediate effect for negligence and irregularities under Madhya Pradesh civil service rules.
- Amit Chauhan, an assistant who drafted and typed the directive, was also suspended, and Malviya’s headquarters were fixed at the commissioner’s office with subsistence allowance.
- The January 3 order, issued for Congress protest arrangements, alleged 14 deaths and 2,800 treatments from contaminated water in Indore and called Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya’s 'ghanta' remark inhuman and authoritarian.
- Officials and Malviya said portions of the text were lifted from a Congress memorandum or WhatsApp message; Malviya said he withdrew the order and reissued it but the earlier version went viral.
- Abhishek Sharma was appointed the new SDM of Dewas as the political fallout continues over the Indore water-contamination crisis and competing death toll claims, despite Vijayvargiya’s earlier apology and Congress 'Ghanta Bajao' protests.