Centre assures justice,awaits report

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday gave an assurance to a delegation of All India IAS Officers Association that justice would be done to suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal,who had clamped down on the mining mafia in Gautam Budh Nagar area of Uttar Pradesh,amid growing demands for her reinstatement.Noting that Nagpal has been suspended without being given an opportunity,Minister of State for Personnel V Narayanasamy told the delegation that the Centre was still awaiting a report from the UP government informing it of the 28-year-old officer’s suspension. “Unless I get report,we won’t react to any kind of emotion or some kind of media report. We will wait for the reply from the state government,” the minister told the mediapersons.

Officers like Nagpal hard to find: Anna

Terming the suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal as unfortunate,social activist Anna Hazare said the state government should reconsider the decision as such honest officers are difficult to find today.

No retsraint in a brigade of UP ministers: Jaiswal

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Union minister Sriprakash Jaiswal Thursday hit out at UP minister Azam Khan for his remark on the suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal and said there was a brigade of irresponsible ministers in the SP government. “These ministers in UP have no restraint on their tongues. It is the duty of the state government to restrain them,” the coal minister said. “Ram naam ki loot hai; loot sako to loot lo (You are allowed to loot in the name of lord Ram),” Khan had told a TV channel while speaking on the suspension of Nagpal.