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DIG?s warning to lax SOs
All ninety police stations in Allahabad range have incurred the DIG's displeasure over their failure in disposing off confiscated public property lying at police stations in different forms. Piqued over no progress shown by station officers of 30 police stations in Allahabad, Kaushambi, Fatehpur and Pratapgarh districts the DIG Akhilesh Mehrotra has entered 'warning' in the personal files of these station officers.
Delay in disposal of confiscated property
All ninety police stations in Allahabad range have incurred the DIG's displeasure over their failure in disposing off confiscated public property lying at police stations in different forms.
Piqued over no progress shown by station officers of 30 police stations in Allahabad, Kaushambi, Fatehpur and Pratapgarh districts the DIG Akhilesh Mehrotra has entered 'warning' in the personal files of these station officers. This warning may even prove a hindrance at the time of promotion of these station officers in case their progress in disposing off property still remains tardy, said police sources.
The DIG is reported to have taken the action against 30 police station officers following DGP's directive to all the police stations in the State to ensure that property lying in different forms at the police stations in the State should be disposed off by the police station concerned within six months beginning from October 15, 2005.
However, following a survey it was found that the police stations in four districts under Allahabad range had hardly taken any initiative to dispose off the property even after three months of the DGP's directive.
Out of 90 police stations in the range 30 were blacklisted for having made no progress at all. Hence the adverse entry.
Be it cars, trucks, buses, three-wheelers, two-wheelers, bicycles or other articles which are kept under lock and key in the malkhana of police stations in general present a picture of a junk house rather than a place where cops are present to keep an eye on crime and criminals and help the law-abiding citizens.
As for them station officers come and go but property in various forms lying at police stations remains as it is.
Instead of decreasing its volume keeps increasing. There are several police stations in these four districts which have no place to keep unclaimed property.
As a result a number of new vehicles have rusted over the years.
