Bhopal, Jan. 3 -- Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav on Friday ordered the suspension of Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC)'s additional commissioner and Public Health Engineering (PHE) department engineer and transferred the municipal commissioner hours after issuing show-cause notices to them, finally cracking down on errant senior officials who allegedly sat on complaints of contaminated water for at least six months before a spate of deaths sparked national outrage.

The development came on a day the Madhya Pradesh high court took up the crisis, even as the toll climbed to 10 amid mounting criticism of government inaction after complaints from residents of Bhagirathpura, a congested neighbourhood in Indore, in July of foul smel...