Senior Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member Naresh Agarwal has demanded suspension of the District Magistrate of Gautam Buddha Nagar district after the officer in his report claimed that Durga Shakti Nagpal had m not demolished the boundary wall of the mosque in Noida.
Talking to reporters in Hardoi, Agarwal said that the DM Kumar Ravikant Singh should also be punished along with the SDM in the Noida mosque demolition case. ''Several officers in the state were conspiring to trigger communal violence and this should be checked with strong hands,'' he said. The state government had suspended Nagpal for 'demolishing' the wall of a religious structure in Gautam Budh Nagar expressing fears that the same could have led to communal tension.
The suspension came days after Nagpal took on the powerful sand mafia in Noida, seizing lorries and imposing penalties. According to the DM report, Nagpal had received orders from the administration to travel to Kadalpur village and find out if illegal construction activities on government land were being carried out. Since the IAS officer had been asked to ensure no action of the authorities should lead to tensions, Nagpal and other officers asked the villagers to either seek permission from the government for building the religious structure whose construction had just begun or themselves demolish the construction on encroached land.
The residents of the Kadalpur village then chose the second option and dismantled the illegal construction, the report says further, adding no machinery was ever used by the IAS officer or her team. The state government had claimed that the wall was demolished by the IAS officer. The report further says that police did not report any communal flare-up or the possibility of any riots.