HC-admonished Hathras DM gets ‘routine’ transfer to UP’s Mirzapur

The district magistrate (DM) of Hathras, Praveen Kumar Laxkar, whose controversial tenure oversaw the alleged gang-rape, murder and hasty cremation of a Dalit woman in the dead of the night on September 30, was on Thursday transferred to Mirzapur in the same capacity. It comes close to two months after the Allahabad high court expressed reservation over his continuance at the post, and about 27 days ahead of the next hearing.