India, Oct. 23 -- The Cabinet Secretariat refrained from taking any action on complaints sent by two Election Commissioners against the conduct of an officer in the Commission, noting that the communications were in their "individual capacity" and in the absence of "any official communication from the Commission as a whole, any action at this stage may be inappropriate", records made public in an RTI reply show.

Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had sent two separate communications on July 29 to the top bureaucrat of the country, T V Somanathan, on the working of Senior Deputy Election Commissioner (Sr DEC) Maneesh Garg, IAS, who was posted in the Commission by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet since Sep...