India, July 16 -- PUNE

The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Wednesday suspended two senior officials from its environment engineering department and ordered departmental inquiries against them over alleged lapses linked to the Moshi garbage depot tragedy that claimed nine lives earlier this month.

Municipal commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi issued separate suspension orders against Sanjay Narayan Kulkarni, chief engineer and head of the environment engineering department, and Yogesh Sopan Alhat, executive engineer. The suspensions took immediate effect after their replies to the show-cause notices issued on Monday were unsatisfactory.

The civic body had issued show-cause notices to the two officials following the July 8 in...