nashik the conflict in the governing body of nashiks 175yearold public library turned ugly on tuesday evening when the president suspended three senior executives for alleged involvement in misappropriation of funds popularly known as savana after its marathi name sarvajanik vachanalaya nashik the library is a literary movement and a very special institution for nashiks literaturelovers president vilas aurangabadkar has issued suspension notices to executive secretary milind jahagirdar executive president vinaya kelkar and treasury secretary swanand bedarkar the president has asked them to stop their official duties from the immediate effect and prohibited them from performing any work until next order majority of members raised objections on the working style of the three suspended executives they will be questioned further and given an opportunity to present their side before initiating action against them said aurangabadkar started in 1840 savana has been an inseparable part of nashiks cultural and literary scenario at present the library has membership of more than 5000 with hundreds of daily visitors the library celebrated its 175th anniversary earlier this year with many literary events the three suspended executives released a joint statement terming the action as an injustice to their dedicated service we have worked dedicatedly for the overall development and modernization of savana over the years suspension is injustice towards us and we will present our side the statement says fresh developmental works and digitization activities were carried out under the present executive body former members of library had alleged that the three members performed gross corruption in infrastructure development and book procurement former executive president of the library madhukar zende raised this issue the modernization work was carried out only in the front side of the library while the internal condition is still poor under the name of digitization many old and important records were destroyed alleged zende former executive secretary shrikant bene has alleged corruption worth crores of rupees misappropriations of funds and unconstitutional appointments by the suspended members during the tenure of these people many decisions were finalized without taking members into confidence unlawful appointments illegal construction in green room of auditorium and many other issues will now come to fore bene said