Akhilesh Yadav: Regret posting Durga Nagpal to Noida, not her suspension

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has said he regretted having posted suspended IAS official Durga Sakthi Nagpal to a prime district like Noida, but he defended her suspension. In an interview to Wall Street Journal, Yadav said on Wednesday that it was at the request of Durga Nagpal's husband, also an IAS official, that she was posted in Greater Noida. In hindsight, the chief minister said, he regretted having ceded to the demand on a purely humanitarian grounds. Husband of suspended IAS officer Durga Sakthi Nagpal is posted in Ghaziabad. The chief minister, while defending the action of his government to suspend Nagpal, said he has never interfered in the working of the official. "I have no knowledge what she did against the mining activities in the area," the chief minister was quoted as saying and denied any link between Nagpal's suspension and the mining activities.