Centre yet to decide on tainted MP IAS couple's dismissal

Madhya Pradesh government has thrice recommended to the Centre dismissal of suspended IAS couple Arvind and Tinu Joshi but a decision on its proposal has not yet been taken, the state assembly was informed today.
Replying to a question by Congress's Umang Singh, Minister of State for General Administration Lal Singh Arya told the House that proposals for dismissal of the two were sent to the Centre between April 2012 and May 2014.
The government's move followed an Income Tax raid at the couple's house in 2010 following which a disproportionate assets case was registered against them.
The proposals to dismiss Arvind Joshi were sent on April 28, 2012, March 6, 2013 and May 24, 2014, while against Tinu Joshi recommendations were sent on April 30, 2012, March 6, 2013 and on May 24, 2014, the minister said.

Arya also said after getting sanction for their prosecution on January 20, 2014, a challan was filed in the court by the probe agency on March 1 for initiating the process of confiscating assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
In a written reply to the same question, the government said a committee chaired by former Chief Secretary Nirmala Buch had also found the charges against the couple true.

The couple, IAS officers of 1979 batch, had made headlines after Income Tax department raided their residence in February 2010 and unearthed assets worth a staggering Rs 360 crore. Rs 3 crore cash, besides documents related to other assets "grossly disproportionate" to their income had been seized.

While Arvind Joshi was then posted as Principal Secretary, Jails, Tinu was Secretary of Women and Child Development department.
Soon after the raid, the couple was placed under suspension.