Mumbai: Former IAS officer Subhash Lalla, whose kin owns a flat in the scam-hit Adarsh Housing Society in south Mumbai, today resigned as a member of Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission.
Lalla met Governor K. Sankaranarayanan at Raj Bhavan this morning and submitted his resignation.
"The Governor has accepted Lalla's resignation," a Raj Bhavan spokesperson said. Lalla, who was secretary in the Chief Minister's Office when the Housing Society's file was being processed in the state secretariat, is the first bureaucrat to resign for his alleged involvement in the Adarsh scam.
Ashok Chavan was to forced to quit as Chief Minister last year after it was revealed that his kin including late mother-in-law, owned flats in the Adarsh society.
To reports that the state government had asked former bureaucrats Ramanand Tiwari and Lalla to step down over their alleged involvement in the housing scam, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan had declined to comment.
"Chief Secretary was asked to meet the two officers to elicit certain information (on Adarsh scam). I will not comment further," Chavan had said last week.
Tiwari, former Urban Development Secretary, is the State Information Commissioner.