New Delhi, Aug 4 (Zee News): Inspite of the growing pressure on the Uttar Pradesh government to revoke the suspension of Durga Shakti Nagpal, the Akhilesh Yadav government on Sunday evening served a chargesheet to the IAS officer.
The state government has also sent a report to the Centre.
In the chargesheet, as per reports, it has been said that the IAS officer had not adhered to the rules while demolishing a mosque wall. Nagpal has been given 15 days to file her reply.
The chargesheet comes a day after Congress president Sonia Gandhi wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to make sure that the young IAS officer is not unfairly treated.
The Samajwadi Party had hit back at the Congress today over Sonia's letter and had questioned as to what they had done about Haryana cadre IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who had allegedly been transferred for questioning Robert Vadra's land deals.
In a retort to SP's barbs, the Congress said that Sonia was well within her rights to question the suspension of the IAS officer and that the whole matter had gone beyond the boundaries of Uttar Pardesh.
The Centre had sought a report from Samajwadi Party on suspension of Durga Nagpal. It has been alleged that she was suspended by the Akhilesh government for her alleged cracked down on sand mafia involved in rampant quarrying along the banks of Yamuna River.
Durga Shakti Nagpal belongs to the UP cadre. She was suspended on July 27 ostensibly for ordering demolition of a wall of a local under-construction mosque without following the due process.
The UP government has come under sharp criticism for the suspension of the officer, with all major Opposition parties, including the BJP and BSP accusing Akhilesh Yadav and his ministers for protecting the sand mafia.
The matter took a turn for the worst when a Samajwadi Party leader was caught on camera boasting that he had got Nagpal suspended in 41 minutes.
Meanwhile, supposedly miffed at Congress' intervention in the suspension of Nagpal, the SP has threatened to not support the Food Security Bill in the Monsoon Session of the Parliament.
The Monsoon Session is set to begin from tomorrow.