An Indian Administrative Officer (IAF) posted in Uttar Pradesh has been asked to pay ₹ 1.63 crore in ‘damages’ for ‘unauthorised occupation’ of an official bungalow in New Delhi, a report in the Indian Express said.

The officer, currently the District Magistrate of Lakhimpur Kheri, stated that she had sought extensions due to her parents’ ill health and had requested a waiver of the penal charges.

As per the Indian Express report , the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), under the Union Agriculture Ministry, has issued notices to IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal seeking ₹ 1.63 crore in damages for what it terms her “unauthorised occupation” of an official bungalow on its Pusa campus in Delhi between May 2022 and February 2025.

Nagpal, a 2010-batch IAS officer, was allott

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