As I've mentioned publicly and privately to you so far. All that it would have taken to prevent this difficulty would be a single reply to the email you received saying "just checking that you're working on this". That would have highlighted the fact that pratik forgot to tell you what was going on.

Instead we find ourselves here. I'm sorry that you feel so let down by the process, and I realise that you feel you've followed the right process. But fundamentally you've assumed malice where there was in fact a simple error. Had you taken a few minutes to check before doing this, we'd all have been better off.

Having said all that, we obviously need a more clearly documented "what to do when you don't get a reply" policy. We also need to move the email.