Senior IAS officer Srilakshmi joins duty after 5 years

Hyderabad: Senior IAS officer Y. Srilakshmi, who is facing a CBI inquiry for allotment of mines to the Obulapuram Mining Corp. in Anantapur district and was arrested, suspended, and jailed, has come back to work on Friday.

Ms Srilakshmi, a 1988 batch IAS officer allotted to Telangana cadre, has been appointed secretary, public enterprises. She met Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma and joined the duty after being in hibernation for five years.

Sources said the government revoked her suspension, gave orders allotting her to Telang-ana cadre and a posting.

She had been arrested on November 28, 2011, in the OMC mining scam and had spent several months in Chanchalguda Jail where she fell sick. She came out on bail in October 2012.

Ms Srilakshmi was charged by the CBI with flouting norms in granting mining leases to OMC owned by Gali Janardhan Reddy when Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy was Chief Minister.