Badaun gang-rape: UP principal secretary (home) Anil Kumar Gupta shifted
Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has not yet posted a new official in Gupta's place
Lucknow: Under fire for the Badaun gang-rape and murder of two cousin sisters, Uttar Pradesh government on Monday shifted principal secretary (home) Anil Kumar Gupta.
Gupta has been put on the waiting list of posting, an official spokesman said.
The state government had been in the firing line of all the opposition parties which had been citing the incident as symptomatic of “dismal" law and order situation in the state. Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has not yet posted a new official in Gupta’s place, the spokesman added. PTI
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