The government had not accorded permission to senior bureaucrat M. Sivasankar for his tell-all autobiography, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the Assembly on Tuesday.
Prior permission was not sought for the purpose, he said in a written reply given to a question raised by Najeeb Kanthapuram (IUML).
To another question by M. Vincent (Congress), Mr. Vijayan clarified the UAE gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh’s husband was not provided employment under the government’s K-FON project.