While the Provincial Police Services Association (PPSA) is yet to react to the suspension of a deputy SP rank officer, who was compulsory retired on orders of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, some others are up in arms alleging that the state government as well as senior officers of the Home Department are adopting double standard when it comes to take action against them.
“Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had ordered removal of additional director general of police (Traffic) MK Bashal for failing to maintain traffic, but when no action has taken against Bashal so far and he still enjoy the same posting. However, the state government took no time to place the Gorakhpur Deputy SP Santosh Singh under suspension,” cited a senior PPS officer who could not be inducted into the elite IPS cadre as he had crossed his age limit. On the directions of the CM, the state government on Monday placed deputy SP Santosh Singh under suspension and attached him with the DGP office. An enquiry against Singh, posted as circle officer (Traffic) in Gorakhpur is also underway just to give him forced retirement as per the directions of the Chief Minister.
DGP OP Singh on Monday recommended suspension of Singh, a day after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered that the CO (Traffic) of Gorakhpur be given compulsory retirement. Singh is accused of extorting money from vehicle drivers. In the probe, it was found that Singh was taking the side of Vishwajeet Singh alias Kallu Singh with whom the complainant’s husband had a dispute over illegal extortion of money from a tempo travellers’ stand in Gorakhpur. The ADG, Gorakhpur Zone, found that the conduct of the CO (Traffic) was not up to the mark and recommended action against him. Subsequently, the DGP recommended suspension of the CO (Traffic) to the UP government.
