India, June 21 -- LUCKNOW The removal of two senior IAS officers - director (administration), medical and health services Bhawani Singh Khangarot and inspector-general (registration) Sameer Verma - from their posts on Wednesday has brought the tussle between ministers and department heads over transfers of employees out in the open.

Transfers of employees in the stamp and registration, health, basic education, animal husbandry, forest, agriculture, transport departments and the PWD were put on hold by the state government after allegations of irregularities and corruption.

In various departments, ministers and HoDs were at loggerheads over transfer of employees. Alleging that the transfer list was released without their consent, ministe...