Six more charges have been registered against Shanti, the assistant commissioner of the Endowment department, who has already been suspended from her job on various charges. The six new charges related to violations committed during her tenure as Assistant Commissioner in the joint Visakhapatnam district.
Commissioner Satyanarayana said that when she joined the Department in 2020, her husband’s name was registered as K. Madanmohan in the Service Register, and when she applied for maternity leave also on January 25 last year, the husband’s name was also mentioned as Madanmohan.
But in a press conference she held on the 17th of this month, the first charge was that she had said that she had married a man named P. Subhash and that it was against the code of conduct of the employees to get married for the second time without getting a divorce. The second charge was made that she had damaged the reputation of the Department by her behavior.
Another charge was registered for speaking at a press conference without permission of the commissioner. Satyanarayana stated she had tweeted about MP Vijaya Sai Reddy on May 28 last year, saying he was the backbone of the party, and this indicates her association with that party. As a government employee, this is against the rules, the charge said.
She was asked for an explanation for her rude behaviour with someone from another part of the apartment, while she was residing in Visakhapatnam. Even though Shanti does not have the authority to renew the leases of shops and lands of Anakapalli, Chodavaram, Payakaraopeta and Dharapuram Temples for 11 years instead of 3 years, she had sent proposals to the Commissioner.
She was asked to give her explanation to all these charges within 15 days. Moreover, the department constituted a three-member committee to probe into her violations as assistant commissioner in Visakha, Anakapalli and NTR districts, besides giving lands and shops on lease and issuing of NOCs to alienate temple lands.
