The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) has issued a demand notice to IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal for ₹1.63 crore. Currently serving as a District Magistrate at Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, Nagpal has been accused of “unauthorised occupation” of an official Type VI-A bungalow on its Pusa campus in Delhi long after her deputation ended, between May 2022 and February 2025.

Who is IAS Durga Shakti Nagpal?

Durga Shakti Nagpal, a 2010-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, was allotted bungalow B-17 on March 19, 2015. At the time, she was an Officer on Special Duty to then Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh . She took possession of the bungalow a month later, while paying ₹6,600 per month plus water charges.

According to the filing, her deputation in the Agric

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