India, July 7 -- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has relieved the private secretary and two additional secretaries of their duties from the office of Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav. The development comes as part of a series of orders, issued dated July 3 by Vibhuti Paniyar, under secretary to the Government of India. The exact reason behind the development remains unknown.

All three members have been a part of Yadav's office for multiple years now.

The orders, which HT has seen, state PS to the minister, Amar Singh an IRS-IT officer of the 2010 batch has been repatriated to his parent cadre, the Department of Revenue, on 'administrative ground' and has been relieved of his duties with immediate effect....