Updated On: 01 January, 2021 12:00 AM IST | Lucknow | PTI
Hathras District Magistrate Praveen Kumar Laxkar had come into focus after the woman was raped by four upper-caste men in Hathras on September 14.

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The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday transferred 16 IAS officers, including Hathras District Magistrate Praveen Kumar Laxkar, under whose jurisdiction the case of the 19-year-old woman who was raped and murdered, was being handled.
Laxkar will be the new district magistrate of Mirzapur.