India, May 26 -- The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) on Sunday suspended a junior engineer for ignoring repeated directives over the past several months to install a power connection to activate the motor pumps at the sump well in Gulmohar Park in Sector 15, which resulted in heavy water logging in the area during rainfall in the past few weeks. A sump well is used to prevent flooding by diverting excess water away from an area.

The official, identified as Ravinder Kumar, was suspended with immediate effect for negligence and prolonged inaction pending a detailed departmental inquiry. MCG officials said that Kumar did not arrange the electricity connection needed to activate the sump pump system despite several verbal and written...