The Madurai district collectorate has served a chargesheet notice on the panchayat president of Silaiman village panchayat coming under Thiruparankundram union in Madurai district.
According to local administration sources, recent investigations by the assistant director of audits revealed misappropriation of funds to a tune of Rs 14.85 lakh.
A copy of the chargesheet available with this newspaper read that the majority of the works executed by the local body headed S. Syed Ali Fathima were not governed as per the rules prescribed under the local administration procedures.
Tenders were not floated and civic works worth several lakhs had been carried out without proper documentations.
Even bills were not produced for the executed works and registry detailing the works executed were not maintained.
As investigations by audits assistant director has confirmed largescale violations under TN Panchayat Act 1994, legal action will be taken by next week after obtaining a counter reply, sources said.