DM who gave Durga clean chit removed

The Uttar Pradesh government late on Tuesday night transferred the district magistrate of Greater Noida Ravikant Singh and put him on the wait list. Ravikant Singh has earned the state government ire when he gave a clean chit to suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal in the alleged demolition of a mosque wall in Kadalpur village. Mr Ravikant Singh has been replaced by Mr Hiralal Gupta, hitherto the district magistrate of Unnao. Sources said that the decision to remove Ravikant Singh was taken earlier but the implementation had been delayed because of the raging controversy over the suspension of Durga Shakti Nagpal. Interestingly, some other IAS officers were also transferred late on Tuesday night but the official list was not released to the media.