Indore: Residents wait to recieve medical help at Bhagirathpura amid the contaminated tap water crisis where several people died and fell ill, in Indore. (PTI Photo)

INDORE: The Madhya Pradesh govt removed Indore municipal commissioner Dilip Kumar Yadav and suspended additional commissioner Rohit Sisoniya on Friday, its first major action in the contaminated water tragedy in Indore’s Bhagirathpura, since people began falling ill on Dec 29 in a city ranked on multiple occasions as India’s cleanest. The action came on a day the death toll in the tragedy rose to 10 with the death of a 68-year-old woman. Pradeep Nigam, in-charge superintendent engineer of Indore Municipal Corporation’s (IMC) water distribution department, was also removed from his post. Three additional commissioners – Akash Prakhar Singh and Ashish Kumar Pathak – were posted to the IMC after a meeting chaired by additional chief secretary Sanjay Dubey, who has been camping in Indore.

Crackdown On Officials AsToll Rises To 10

Submitting a status report, the state govt, however, told the MP high court Friday that only four deaths had been recorded. Indore mayor Pushyamitra Bhargava said Friday he had information of 10 deaths due to the diarrhoea outbreak in Bhagirathpura.