IT HAS been another month or thereabouts, when the image of the men in khaki has taken a beating. That the confidence of the common man in the force has been shaken would be an understatement.
Figures available for June state that 13 police officials have been suspended and a senior police official was attached to the lines when they were found indulging in corrupt practices.
Besides, the incidents in which cops were punished, there are incidents galore when senior officials watered down misdeeds of officials.
On June 13, a traffic sub-inspector Ram Naresh and constable Awadhesh Kumar Pathak at Zarib Chaowki extorted Rs 2000 from a Punjabi family passing through the city while on way to Agra.
The family members met the SSP and the accused twosome touched the feet of the person from whom they took the money and returned Rs 2000. Nothing happened against the tainted personnel.
June 19, proved to be another blot on the uniform of police department, as in connection of the murder of one Salim in Khurja under Derapur police station, three police officials including an SHO Derapur were suspended.
The passport bribery racket at the IIT-K surfaced on June 21. Following an inquiry by the anti-corruption wing sleuths, a case against three sub-inspectors of the local intelligence unit (LIU), including IIT-K chief security officer Alok Kumar was registered at Kalyanpur police station. Later, two LIU Sub-inspectors were suspended in this regard and LIU deputy SP Amarnath Gautam was transferred to the Police Training Centre in Moradabad.
{{/usCountry}}The passport bribery racket at the IIT-K surfaced on June 21. Following an inquiry by the anti-corruption wing sleuths, a case against three sub-inspectors of the local intelligence unit (LIU), including IIT-K chief security officer Alok Kumar was registered at Kalyanpur police station. Later, two LIU Sub-inspectors were suspended in this regard and LIU deputy SP Amarnath Gautam was transferred to the Police Training Centre in Moradabad.
{{/usCountry}}On June 22 Babupurwa SHO Rajendra Dhar Dwivedi was found guilty of hiding facts pertaining to the murder of Ruchir Mishra, an Indian Oil officer. On the orders of Director General of Police (DGP) Bua Singh, a panel was quietly constituted to conduct a probe into allegations against him.
The panel found him guilty of all charges but instead of suspending him, his immediate seniors only attached Dwivedi to the police lines.
Following a sting operation by a news channel, eight officials, including Jailor Anjani Kumar Gupta were found guilty of taking bribe from relatives of prisoners before allowing them to meet. Later, all seven officials were suspended.
Meanwhile, co Colonelganj arrested constables Virendra Kumar and Uday Bhan on June 26 near Mandhana police post, extorting Rs 30 from a tractor driver.
Interestingly, Uday Bhan managed to escape.
Sadly, police officials have even given court orders the short shrift. However, for doing this they had to face the court’s music. A Sub-inspector Jeetendra Pal Singh, posted in Chakeri, was being issued date after date by the court, asking the S-I to appear before the court to witness the recovery of explosives in large quantity at Chakeri police station.
Singh could not appear in the court till it issued his arrest warrant. On the same day on June 6, three sub-inspectors and two constables of Barra police station were hauled up by the court when they didn’t appear in court in connection with 11 persons burning alive.