ECI issues fresh work allocation order; brings back oversight on IT head

New Delhi: More than three months after the row over movement of IT Head Seema Khanna’s files, the Election Commission of India has issued a fresh order bringing back oversight over her department through a Deputy Election Commissioner. Mass deletions, internal dissent allegations challenge Supreme Court-backed SIR storyline 1 An internal order issued on July 28 by Senior DEC Maneesh Garg had removed Deputy Election Commissioner Sanjay Kumar from the charge of IT and ICT and gave Dr. Khanna a free hand, enabling her to directly report to the Commission. Following this, two Election Commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had written to Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan on July 29 regarding the working allocation order of Dr. Garg, who had been in interim charge of Administration department.