In a major administrative action following the Moshi garbage depot tragedy, the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has suspended two senior officials of its environment and engineering department with immediate effect and initiated departmental inquiries against them for alleged gross negligence and dereliction of duty on Wednesday.

Municipal Commissioner Dr Vijay Suryawanshi issued separate suspension orders against Chief Engineer Sanjay Narayan Kulkarni and Executive Engineer (Environment) Yogesh Sopan Alhat after rejecting their replies to the show-cause notices served following the July 8 incident in which nine contract workers lost their lives.