Upa Lokayukta Subhash B. Adi, armed with a clean chit from the High Court Committee that probed into allegations against him, resumed office on Monday, after a break of two and a half months. He turned up at his office at around 11 a.m. in a private car and resumed office. An office memo issued by former Lokayukta Shivaraj Patil had divided various districts between the two Upa Lokayuktas as their jurisdictions. While one of the allegations made against Mr. Adi was that he overstepped his jurisdiction and took up cases of Upa Lokayukta 1, it will now be interesting to see how the two Upa Lokayuktas – Subhash B. Adi and N. Ananda – will now divide work among themselves. “There are many pending files that have piled up in my absence.

Source: The Hindu May 30, 2016 12:33 UTC