IAS officer leading crackdown on UP sand mafia suspended
July 29, 2013  09:39
A woman Indian Administrative Service officer, who had clamped down on illegal mining and resolutely taken head on the powerful sand mafia in Uttar Pradesh, has been suspended barely 10 months after she got her first posting in the state.  

A 2009-batch IAS officer posted as Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Gautam Budh Nagar in September last year, 28-year-old Durga Shakti Nagpal was penalised ostensibly for the demolition of a wall at a disputed place of worship.   "It is an administrative decision. She had ordered demolition of the wall at a place of worship,' Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said in a post on Sunday on micro-blogging site Twitter.
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