Nationalized Indian Oil Corp’s (IOC) Director (R&D)-Designate Debangshu Ray has been suspended for purportedly leaking secret information to a private company.
Ray, who is general manager (international trade), was perched on Friday, corporation officials told. The suspension came days prior to Ray was to be appointed director (research and development) of the nation’s biggest firm.
“We came to know of irregularities on some occasions and we have suspended Mr Ray,” IOC manager (Human Resources) Verghese Cherian told.
He, though, declined to state the cause for the suspension. "We are yet to dish up a charge sheet on him, therefore I cannot be commenting on the causes as yet."
The Oil bureau has sent Ray’s name for director (R&D) for IOC after candidature of administration headhunter Public endeavor Selection Board’s first choice, B P Das, was discarded.
Bureaucrats told Ray's name had been cleared by the Prime Minister's Office and the Department of workers and Training.
His suspension comes amid a clean-up on seepage of bureaucrat documents from several ministries including oil, power as well as coal.
More than a dozen citizens, including five executives of private corporations similar to Reliance Industries, Essar Oil, Jubilant Energy, Cairn India, as well as Reliance Group, have been arrested for supposedly stealing stacks of administration documents.
Ray had supposedly leaked sensitive information on phone to a manager of Private Corporation.
Action against him comes close on the heels of the administration suspending ONGC’s Director (T&FS) Shashi Shankar over supposed irregularities in an unawarded Rs 23 crore tender.
Shankar, who as the leader of technology and field services (T&FS) yearly handles as a minimum Rs 15,000 crore of agreements for rigs and oilfield services, was suspended on February 23 for supposed "gross misbehavior while dealing with a tender for procurement of 21 Blowout Preventers (BOP)," the oil office had told previous week.
It further told the administration has taken "strong note of the lapses" as well as ordered suspension of Shankar with instant effect to "make certain fair and transparent investigation".
Ray, who is general manager (international trade), was perched on Friday, corporation officials told. The suspension came days prior to Ray was to be appointed director (research and development) of the nation’s biggest firm.
“We came to know of irregularities on some occasions and we have suspended Mr Ray,” IOC manager (Human Resources) Verghese Cherian told.
He, though, declined to state the cause for the suspension. "We are yet to dish up a charge sheet on him, therefore I cannot be commenting on the causes as yet."
The Oil bureau has sent Ray’s name for director (R&D) for IOC after candidature of administration headhunter Public endeavor Selection Board’s first choice, B P Das, was discarded.
Bureaucrats told Ray's name had been cleared by the Prime Minister's Office and the Department of workers and Training.
His suspension comes amid a clean-up on seepage of bureaucrat documents from several ministries including oil, power as well as coal.
More than a dozen citizens, including five executives of private corporations similar to Reliance Industries, Essar Oil, Jubilant Energy, Cairn India, as well as Reliance Group, have been arrested for supposedly stealing stacks of administration documents.
Ray had supposedly leaked sensitive information on phone to a manager of Private Corporation.
Action against him comes close on the heels of the administration suspending ONGC’s Director (T&FS) Shashi Shankar over supposed irregularities in an unawarded Rs 23 crore tender.
Shankar, who as the leader of technology and field services (T&FS) yearly handles as a minimum Rs 15,000 crore of agreements for rigs and oilfield services, was suspended on February 23 for supposed "gross misbehavior while dealing with a tender for procurement of 21 Blowout Preventers (BOP)," the oil office had told previous week.
It further told the administration has taken "strong note of the lapses" as well as ordered suspension of Shankar with instant effect to "make certain fair and transparent investigation".