Indore Water Contamination Deaths: IAS Officer Transferred Twice in Two Weeks, Govt Forms Probe Panel

An audit report prepared by a committee of the government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College had earlier showed that the deaths of at least 15 could be linked to the outbreak in some manner.

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An audit report prepared by a committee of the government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College had earlier showed that the deaths of at least 15 could be linked to the outbreak in some manner.

indore water contamination deaths ias officer transferred twice in two weeks govt forms probe panel

School students being assisted to make way through the debris amid pipeline and drainage work in the aftermath of deaths caused by consumption of allegedly contaminated water, in the Bhagirathpura area of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. Photo: PTI.

Bhopal: The former commissioner of Indore municipal corporation, Dileep Kumar Yadav, is now posted as the managing director of the Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation, marking his second transfer in a fortnight.

The IAS officer was first appointed as deputy secretary of the state's panchayat and rural development department on January 3, in the immediate aftermath of deaths by water contamination in Indore's Bhagirathpura. A day before, Yadav had been served a show cause notice over the deaths.

An audit report prepared by a committee of the government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College showed that the deaths of at least 15 could be linked to the outbreak in some manner. Residents of Bhagirathpura have claimed that 24 persons have died so far of a vomiting and diarrhoea outbreak.

On January 20, the Madhya Pradesh government constituted a state-level committee to investigate the incident and submit its findings and recommendations.

The committee, led by the Additional Chief Secretary of the General Administration Department, Sanjay Kumar Shukla, will examine the causes, ascertain key facts, and analyse administrative, technical, and management deficiencies, PTI has reported.

Reports say that Yadav’s new posting was part of a major administrative reshuffle announced by the Madhya Pradesh government on the evening of January 19, in which 26 Indian Administrative Service officers from batches ranging between 1994 and 2018 were shuffled.

The Madhya Pradesh government has suspended Indore Additional Municipal Commissioner Rohit Sisoniya and Municipal Corporation executive engineer Sanjeev Srivastava.

Dainik Bhaskar has reported that cricketer Shubman Gill’s entourage at Indore, the host city of a one-day international cricket match, included a Rs 3 lakh water-purification machine designed to further clean packaged drinking water.

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