Now chargesheet against suspended IAS officer Durga Nagpal

The Uttar Pradesh government is likely to file a chargesheet against IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, two days after she was suspended. Under increasing pressure to revoke the suspension, CM Akhilesh Yadav had said that he would review the decision on Wednesday. [caption id=“attachment_999067” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav. PTI[/caption] CNN-IBN reports that the filing of a chargesheet is an administrative process so as to issue a show-cause notice to Nagpal, who can then respond to the inquiry panel. Nagpal, who had clamped down on illegal mining and  taken on the powerful sand mafia in Uttar Pradesh, had been suspended on Monday, barely 10 months after she got her first posting in the state. A 2009-batch IAS officer posted as Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Gautam Budh Nagar in September last year, she 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 Twitter. However, local police in Uttar Pradesh later refuted Yadav’s claim saying they had not received any field report regarding communal tension in GB Nagar on Saturday. Slamming the Samajwadi Party government, Opposition parties alleged that the suspension order was made under pressure from the mining mafia. Nagpal had led a crackdown on unauthorised mining in the district and got over two dozen FIRs registered against those involved in illegally removing sand. Special flying squads were formed by her to stop the raging menace along the Yamuna and Hindon rivers in western Uttar Pradesh. Only last week the officer had asserted that there will be no let-up in the fight against unauthorised dredgers. “The entire district has been affected and illegal mining has become a huge problem. The stakes are too high and those involved get huge monetary returns. The act could lead to serious environmental issues and, therefore, needs to be stopped,” she had warned. With PTI inputs