India, May 4 -- State-owned Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) has ordered the dismissal of Amit Dewan, its chief financial officer and former director, finance, of Haryana Power Generation Corporation Ltd (HPGCL), for allegedly misusing his official position to compromise the utility's interests. This marks the fourth such dismissal by the state government and its wings in the past 10 days where the requirement of a departmental inquiry was dispensed with.

According to the dismissal order issued on May 1 by UHBVN managing director Saket Kumar, the Haryana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had arrested Dewan on March 18 while he was posted at HPGCL. The arrest followed a February 23 FIR probing discrepancies involving fraudulent banking...