UP: 15 IPS officers suspended in 3.5 years

LUCKNOW: The Yogi government has suspended 15 IPS officers in the past three and a half years on various charges, including corruption. While seven out of 15 are still under suspension, eight of them have been reinstated. Six of them were suspended this year.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath had shown his intention since the onset when he suspended IPS officer Himanshu Kumar on March 25, 2017 -- barely a few days after taking over -- for indiscipline.Kumar had done a controversial tweet on government biases against a particular caste. Next to face action was Subhash Chandra Dubey for failing to control caste-based clashes in Saharanpur on May 24, 2017.
In 2018, two district police chiefs were suspended on the same day on July 16. Then SP Sambhal SP RM Bhardwaj and then Pratapgarh SP Santosh Kumar Singh were suspended for failing to control law and order in their districts. The CM had also directed a departmental action against them.
In the same year, after the Deoria shelter home abuse case, the CM shunted out SP Rohan P Kanay and initiated departmental action against him on August 15.
Taking a tough stand against corruption, on April 4, 2019, he also suspended SP Barabanki, Satish Kumar, for complaints of extortion of Rs 65 lakh.
Last year, it also began on a strong note and first suspended then ADG rules and manual, Jasvir Singh, on February 19 for indiscipline. It also put under suspension N Kolanchi, for alleged gross irregularities in the transfer and posting of police station in charge while his stint as SP Bulandshahr on August 3. In the same month SSP Prayagraj Atul Sharma was suspended on August 20 for failing to control law and order.
This year, the first to be suspended was then SSP GB Nagar Vaibhav Krishna, for misconduct on January 10. Later, for laxity in a abduction-cum-murder case, Aparna Gupta, who was then posted as SP South in Kanpur Nagar was suspended on July 24.
Last month, the government suspended Arvind Sen posted as DIG, PAC, Agra, and DIG (rules and manuals, Dinesh Dubey for allegations of corruption and then recently, it suspended SSP Prayagraj, Abhishek Dixit, for corruption and laxity, and finally SP Mahoba, Mani Lal Patidar, for corruption.
The government has been very strict and taken stern action in not only complaints against corruption but also for failure to control law and order. It could gauged from the fact that a recent report by the anti-corruption organisation shows that as many as 150 officers were nabbed red-handed taking bribes while assistance and coordination with other government departments helped it solve as many as 153 other cases which had involvement of different non-gazetted officers.