Gujarat considering action to ‘discipline’ Sreekumar

After the meeting, Modi summoned senior home department and CMO officials to his chamber to discuss how to counter Sreekumar. Among the participants in the hour-long discussion were Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, principal secretary (home) K.C. Kapoor, the chief minister’s principal secretary Hasmukh Adhiya, and his additional principal secretary Pankaj Kumar.

Sources said that the participants discussed how to build up a case against Sreekumar and defend the government at the Central Administrative Tribunal, where he has filed a petition challenging his supercession in the last round of promotions.

They also discussed if Sreekumar’s statements to the media amounted to violation of service rules and if he was right in still keeping with him a diary he said was ‘‘semi-official’’ and maintained when he was in the intelligence department.