Mayawati sacks 7,400 more cops

Besides the cops, seven IPS officers, including an Additional Director General of Police and two IGPs, 75 Provincial Police Service (PPS) officers were suspended in connection with the alleged recruitment scam.

LUCKNOW: Continuing its crackdown against recruitment of police personnel during the Mulayam Singh Yadav regime, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday sacked 7,400 more policemen and suspended seven senior IPS officers for alleged irregularities in the selection process.

Besides the seven IPS officers, including an Additional Director General of Police and two IGPs, 75 Provincial Police Service (PPS) officers were suspended in connection with the alleged recruitment scam.

The suspended IPS officers were ADGP V K Bhalla, IGPs A D Mishra and K K Saxena, DIGs V K Agarwal, Prabhat Kumar and Malkhan Singh Yadav and SP G K Goswami, Principal Secretary (Home) J N Chamber told reporters here.

The government annulled the recruitment of 1900 personnel in PAC and the rest in Radio Cell and other departments of the state police, he said.
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