THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Union Home Ministry has directed the State Government to initiate immediate disciplinary action against I G Tomin J Thachankary, who is at present the Marketfed MD, for he visited many people with dubious credentials and accepted their hospitality, violating service rules, during his controversial foreign trip in 2010. It is learnt that the letter regarding the same reached the Chief Minister’s Office three days ago. The letter says that Thachankary had violated service rules as he visited people, including those who allegedly violated IT rules, and even his hotel bill was paid by them. Therefore, immediate disciplinary action should be initiated against him, according to the letter. The officer visited Gulf countries without the consent of the government when he was Kannur Range IG. Subsequently he was suspended from service. He went abroad after lying to the government that he was visiting Sikkim. It was the Indian Ambassador in Qatar, Dr Deepa Gopalan Vagwa, who informed the Home Ministry that there had been reports that Thachankary had met certain people having terror links. Following this, the LDF Government headed by V S Achuthanandan, wrote to the Home Ministry seeking Central agency’s probe into the matter. NIA started the inquiry around two years ago and submitted its report eight months back.However, it is learnt that it had stated in the report that he had no terror links. Thachankary was reinstated in service in June after the UDF Government assumed office without a posting. He was posted as Marketfed MD in November after the Finance Department took a stand that salary could not be disbursed without giving a posting. The government had, now, sought advice from the Home Ministry on giving promotion to Thachankary. The letter was an offshoot of this. However, when contacted, Thanchakary said that the letter was something ‘positive.’“It was the alleged terror-link that the NIA probed. They could not find anything in that direction. The letter only says that my visit without government consent has to be inquired by the State Government. It is a favourable one which has been twisted as negative,” he told ‘Express’. Thachankary was in the news for all wrong reasons, though he was acquitted in a criminal case involving custodial torture. The incident occurred when he was the Assistant Superintendent of Police in Alappuzha in 1991. He also faced inquiry for accumulation of wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income.
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