LUCKNOW: Continuing its crackdown on corruption in bureaucracy, the Yogi Adityanath government on Monday suspended the district magistrate of Auraiya.
Sunil Kumar Verma, the 38-year-old officer, is the second IAS officer to have been suspended in less than a week. On March 31, the state government had suspended Sonbhadra district magistrate TK Shibu, besides senior superintendent of police, Ghaziabad, Pawan Kumar.
A 2013-batch officer, Verma is accused of dereliction of duty and graft. According to officials, the Chief Minister’s office was informed about corruption charges in the past.
