The Allahabad High Court, meanwhile, sought a reply from the Centre and the state government on the illegal mining issue but declined to interfere in the suspension matter of the IAS officer.
Hearing a PIL on the suspension of the IAS officer, the Lucknow bench of the court comprising justices Devi Prasad Singh and Ashok Pal Singh sought reply as to how many FIRs were lodged, how many dumpers were seized and how many people were arrested after the suspension of Nagpal.
"I spoke to Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav at 10.30 AM and at 11 AM the suspension order arrived...She behaved so badly and couldn't last for 40 minutes after that. Within 41 minutes, the order came from Lucknow and she was suspended," the video showed him as saying.
Nagpal, a 2010-batch IAS officer, was served the suspension order on July 27 ostensibly for demolishing the wall of a mosque.
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Bhati, who is also the UP Agro Chairman and enjoys minister status, maintained that permission was not taken to build the wall around the place of worship. The wall was built to allow people to offer Ramzan prayers, he said.
"I was quoted out of context in the so called visuals in some channels...Who am I to get an IAS suspended?" Bhati told PTI over phone.
"A day after the demolition of the wall a panchayat was called by Congress and BSP at Kadalpur village in which around 5,000 people, who were agitated, assembled," he said.
Bhati said that he also went to the village and told the mob that they were being provoked. "I only said that the government is alert and was working in their interest. I told them that I have informed them about the incident and the Chief Minister has suspended the SDM.