Days after his video of "misbehaving" with the brother of a murder victim went, Prashant Sharma was on Thursday removed as the District Magistrate of Amethi.
Arun Kumar, the Vice Chairman of Moradabad Development Authority, has been appointed as the new DM of Amethi. Sharma has been waitlisted.
On Wednesday, Sharma was chided by Union Minister and Amethi MP, Smriti Irani.
"We should try be humble and sensitive. We are public servants, not rulers (Vinay sheel evam samvedansheel banein hum yahi prayas hona chahiye. Janta ke hum sevak hain, shashak nahi," she wrote on twitter tagging the DM.
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