New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- The Cabinet Secretariat sent copies of complaints by Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi against a senior poll panel official to the office of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, but took no action on them, according to information obtained through a Right to Information (RTI) application.

The two commissioners had written separately to Cabinet Secretary TV Somanathan on July 29, with both objecting to the conduct of Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Maneesh Garg.

The answers were provided to transparency activist former commodore Lokesh Batra. They show that the secretariat treated the letters as written by the two commissioners in their individual capacity and not as a formal comp...