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Gautam Goswami dies of cancer

Gautam Goswami

Patna: Gautam Goswami, the tainted IAS officer who was once a poster boy of cool efficiency and celebrated by Time magazine as a man of the year, died of pancreatic cancer here today.

Goswami(41), a 1991 batch IAS officer, has been battling for life for the past several months and his end came at a private nursing home. He is survived by his doctor wife and two sons. A winner of prestigious Time Magazine’s “Young Asian Achiever Award”, Goswami, a former District Magistrate of Patna, was an accused in the multi-crore Bihar flood relief scam.

Goswami, an MBBS degree holder, was shifted from Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) to the private nursing home on Saturday after his condition worsened due to kidney impairment. The State government had on December 8 reinstated him in the service on health grounds.

Goswami had shot into limelight when as District Magistrate in 2004 he asked senior BJP leader and then Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani to leave the dais during an election meeting at Patna midway for canvassing beyond the prescribed time limit set by the Election Commission.

He had earned laurels for his efforts in reaching out relief to flood victims in 2004. But less than a year later, he was accused of involvement in defalcation of relief funds along with Anirudh Prasad Yadav alias Sadhu Yadav brother-in-law of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and 27 others. PTI

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