The special investigation team (SIT) has sought guidelines from the state government to initiate action against senior IAS officer C.K. Anil in the Bihar Staff Selection Commission (BSSC) clerical grade examination.
A senior police officer said on Thursday that the special investigation team has apprised the officials of the state police headquarters and those of the general administration department.
"The decision was taken after he (Anil) failed to depose before the SIT after repeated notices," the officer, who is part of the SIT, told The Telegraph.
In addition, the special investigation team has apprised heads of respective departments of those public servants, whose names had figured in sending SMSes to then BSSC secretary Parmeshwar Ram and its chairman Sudhir Kumar seeking favours in selection of their candidates in the recruitment of auxiliary nurse midwives.
"It is up to the departments concerned to initiate action against those officials who had approached the two senior BSSC functionaries to get their candidates selected as ANMs. The SIT was constituted to investigate the question paper leak case," special investigation team chief and Patna senior superintendent of police Manu Maharaaj had told reporters.
Former MP and veteran socialist leader Shivanand Tiwary claimed that Anil, a 1991-batch IAS officer, was earlier indicted by Bihar Lokayukta N. Pandey, for illegal withdrawal of travel allowance bill when he was posted as district collector of Deoghar in undivided Bihar.
"I had raised the issue of illegal payment of travel allowance bill of Anil in the meeting of the cabinet presided over by then chief minister Rabri Devi," Tiwary said on Thursday.
He said that the matter was referred to the vigilance investigation bureau, then headed by Ashish Ranjan Sinha, for investigation. "What happened later is not known to me," Tiwary, who was then minister of excise and prohibition in the Rabri Devi cabinet, said.
Defending Anil, a senior IAS officer, who was posted at the secretariat then, said Tiwary was externed from Siwan when Anil was posted as district magistrate there.
Tiwary had gone to meet don-turned politician Mohammad Shahabuddin, who was contesting the Lok Sabha elections as an RJD candidate from Siwan.
"Tiwary has some personal grudge against Anil. Which is why he is making such an allegation against him," the senior bureaucrat said.
Tiwary rubbished the allegations.
On Wednesday, Anil had alleged he was being victimised at the behest of some bureaucrats and politicians.
"I am being targeted by the Patna police's special investigation team (SIT) in the question paper case out of political vendetta," Anil had told The Telegraph in a telephonic conversation from an undisclosed location.
The senior IAS officer, , described as a no-nonsense officer by most of his colleagues, had alleged that he was being "fixed" because he had exposed the promotion irregularities which surfaced in August last year.
Anil, a 1991 batch officer posted as officer on special duty (OSD) at the BSSC, wrote letters recently to the President of India, the Prime Minister's Office and to the Union minister of state in the PMO, Jitendra Singh, requesting them to constitute a CBI probe into the question paper leak.
