Three police officials suspended

BULANDSHAHR: A day after principal secretary (home) suspended the top police officials of Bulandshahr district following the highway robbery and gang-rape, an inspector

BULANDSHAHR: A day after principal secretary (home) suspended the top police officials of Bulandshahr district following the highway robbery and gang-rape, an inspector and two other police officials posted at the dial 100 control room were suspended for laxity in duties.

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The control room staff reportedly did not take repeated calls from the victim family in the early hours of July 30.

The state officials on Sunday suspended Bulandshahr SSP, Vibhav Krishna, SP (city) Ram Mohan Singh, circle officer (city) Himanshu Gaurav, in-charge (Kotwali Dehat) Ram Sen Singh, police outpost (highway) incharge Pramod Kumar, highway patrolling in-charge Rustam and beat constable Anurag Yadav.

Deputy inspector general ( Meerut) Laxmi Singh on Monday ordered the three suspensions and said some technical glitches were also found with the police emergency number.

“We have found technical glitches as some telephone lines in the control room were out or order and even the present lines were less in numbers. We have asked the service provider BNSL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) to immediately rectify the issues,” she said.

Police sources said there were six PCR vans posted at Sikanderabad, Kotwali Nagar Bulandshahr, Kotwali Dehat Bulandshahr, Khurja city, Khurja dehat on the night of the incident but they failed to spot the criminals from around 1.15am on the intervening night of July 29/30 when the car was waylaid to 4.15am when the criminals allowed the family to go.