Durga Suspended! Why no action against Tainted IAS Sadakant?

SP govt kept mum on many tainted babus
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-05/india/41091515_1_pradeep-shukla-durga-sp-government

TNN Aug 5, 2013, 05.53AM IST
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Chargesheet against Durga


LUCKNOW: Even as the Samajwadi Party served the chargesheet on IAS
officer Durga Shakti Nagpal describing her as 'lacking administrative
acumen' while allegedly demolishing a wall of a religious place in
Noida, it has a lot to explain for its 'lack of action' against
officers indicted or even punished by courts for corruption.

The government suspended a junior officer like Durga at 1.27am, making
it look like an emergency measure, but it has been very liberal to
senior bureaucrats like Pradeep Shukla, an accused in the
multi-thousand-crore National Rural Health Mission scam. Shukla was
arrested and remained in jail for 90 days, but the SP government never
issued a formal suspension order. When the media questioned its soft
approach, the government clarified the officer was 'deemed' suspended
48 hours after being arrested. More over, senior SP minister Shivpal
Yadav went to meet Shukla in jail.Another case is in point is that of
the present principal secretary, appointment, Rajiv Kumar. He was
removed from the post after he was sentenced, along with former chief
secretary Neera Yadav, in a Noida land scam case. But he was back in
saddle right after high court stayed the sentence. Although the
hearing on his petition continues and he has still not been
exonerated, Kumar continues to hold the post.

Similarly, Mahesh Gupta, who is currently posted as divisional
commissioner, Kanpur, didn't face any action, despite being indicted
for his role in an appointment scam. Inquires are also pending against
key officers like Alok Ranjan, at present holding the charge of both
agriculture production commissioner (APC) and Infrastructure and
Industrial development commissioner (IIDC) and Sadakant, principal
secretary, housing and information. These are just a few names. There
are over 25 IAS officers facing vigilance inquires.

By suspending a junior-most IAS officer as a 'precautionary move' to
check communal tension, the government has put itself in a bind. A
senior party functionary on terms of anonymity says: "It is a
situation in which retreat is difficult and advance is impossible."
This one episode has fast put the SP government on a slide in public
perception. This has aggravated all that was already negative in terms
of law and order and poor delivery mechanism about the government.
This is why the suspension of Durga has not been taken well and there
is widespread disbelief about the government's stand, even as the CM
seeks to justify it.

Reason to this is not far too seek. The promptness with which Durga
was put under suspension and the way it has been defended, is perhaps
a unique case. Durga has the point in favour that she is just a
starter with only two and half years into the service. She did nothing
overnight in Gautam Budh Nagar. She was in news for quite some time
and her action was being watched.

The government had enough time to ask her to mend her ways, if at all
she was going awry. And then on July 28, the government swooped on her
midnight by putting her under suspension.