Hours after mid-day published a report on the bunking scam at the Andheri office, Western Railway officials on Friday suspended the senior in-charge of emergency maintenance workers whose proxies were being marked while they were in their respective hometowns.

Arvind Kumar supervised the emergency maintenance work at the Senior Section Engineer (P.WAY) office of WR in Andheri when the racket was busted. The vigilance department of WR discovered that more maintenance workers were on leave when their proxies were being marked at the office, sources said.