Lucknow. Indulging in corruption, closing eyes against him and any kind of negligence in government work is not tolerated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Yogi Adityanath, who started his second innings as Chief Minister, had on Wednesday suspended Sonbhadra District Magistrate TK Shibu and Ghaziabad SSP Pawan Kumar. On Monday, on his instructions, Sunil Kumar Verma, a 2013 batch IAS officer, Auraiya DM, has been suspended.
On the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the government has suspended Auraiya District Magistrate Sunil Kumar Verma on charges of corruption and negligence in work. This is the second major action on top officials in the second term of CM. The Chief Minister has also directed a vigilance inquiry on complaints of corruption and disproportionate assets against Verma.
Sunil Kumar Verma has been suspended on the basis of the investigation report of Divisional Commissioner Kanpur and ADG Kanpur Zone Bhanu Bhaskar. The government has appointed Prakash Chandra Srivastava as the new District Magistrate of Auraiya. Till now he was posted as Additional Inspector General of Stamps and Registration.
Complaints against Verma, a 2013 batch IAS officer, had reached the government while being the administrator of the district panchayat, irregularities in issuing licenses of arms, collusion with the mining mafia and not listening to public problems. During the assembly elections, questions were also raised on his impartiality and integrity, including increasing closeness with the opposition camp. On the basis of these complaints, the government got the investigation conducted by the Divisional Commissioner Kanpur and ADG Kanpur Zone. Therefore, while lashing out under the zero tolerance policy against corruption, the Chief Minister has again taken strict action against the bureaucracy.
This is the second harsh action of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on the bureaucracy in the second term. Verma is the second DM who has been suspended in the last one week on the instructions of the Chief Minister. Earlier on March 31, the Chief Minister had suspended Sonbhadra DM TK Shibu on charges of corruption and Ghaziabad SSP Pawan Kumar for negligence in work. There is a discussion that many more officers are on the radar of the government, against whom big action can be taken in the coming days.
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