No action against IAS officer Smita Sabharwal till October 7: Telangana HC

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IAS serviceman  Smita Sabharwal. File

IAS serviceman Smita Sabharwal. File | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL

The Telangana High Court, connected Thursday (September 25, 2025), directed the State authorities not to initiate immoderate adverse enactment against elder IAS serviceman Smita Sabharwal — who served arsenic Secretary successful the Chief Minister’s Office during the stint of K. Chandrasekhar Rao — based connected the findings of the P.C. Ghose Commission probing the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project.

A Bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, which heard her plea, said that nary enactment should beryllium taken against the serviceman till October 7.

Earlier, a akin extortion was extended to erstwhile Chief Minister KCR, his erstwhile Cabinet workfellow T. Harish Rao and retired IAS serviceman S.K. Joshi.

The serviceman contended that the Commission observed that she was recovered to beryllium negligent and irresponsible successful discharging duties portion serving successful the CMO bureau successful the matters pertaining to execution of Kaleshwaram project. The contiguous authorities mightiness invoke enactment based connected specified findings of the Commission, the IAS serviceman stated.

Published - September 26, 2025 04:16 p.m. IST

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