Close on the heels of its recommendation to the Centre to dismiss disgraced IAS officer Arvind Joshi,the Madhya Pradesh government on Monday recommended similar action for his wife Tinu Joshi,also an IAS officer of the 1979 batch. The couple were suspended in February 2010 after Income-Tax raids at their government bungalow yielded Rs 3 crore in cash and details of investments that were eventually assessed at around Rs 250 crore. Arvind Joshi was principal secretary (Jails) and Tinu was principal secretary (Women and Child Welfare) when they were suspended on February 5,a day after the raid that also yielded foreign currency and expensive liquor bottles. The state government had then cracked the whip without even waiting for the preliminary report from the I-T authorities. A committee headed by former chief secretary Nirmal Buch was constituted a few months later to study the report submitted by the I-T department. After a long delay,the Buch committee submitted its findings. While recommending the dismissal of Arvind Joshi two days ago,Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had said that the officer was not worth a posting anywhere in the country and should be sacked immediately.
