Nagarjun B Gowda, a 2019-batch IAS officer and qualified MBBS doctor, hails from a small village in Karnataka and cracked the UPSC exam with AIR 418 in 2018. Gowda is married to IAS officer Srushti Jayant Deshmukh, who secured AIR 5 in UPSC 2018. In his defence, IAS Gowda told Navbharat Times that the decision was made strictly based on documents available in court, saying, “More than half the land had valid mining permissions.
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