Chennai, May 24 -- The Madras high court has sentenced senior IAS officer Anshul Mishra to 1 month simple imprisonment for contempt of court. Justice P Velmurugan passed the order against the officer for not complying with court orders and directed him to pay a compensation of Rs.25,000 from his salary to the two petitioners in the case- siblings. However, the court suspended the sentence giving him time for 30 days to file an appeal. The officer has been the managing director of the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development since February and was the Member Secretary of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) when the court had issued the department directions.

The petitioners, R Lalithambai and KS Viswanathan had filed a case ...