UP: Sacked cops protest against Maya's clean-up mission

PROTEST BY POLICEMEN: Policemen suspended by in UP are on the streets protesting against the Mayawati government.

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New Delhi: In Uttar Pradesh, the policemen dismissed by the Mayawati government are out on the streets protesting.

They blocked roads in Lucknow's Mahanagar area on Monday morning and Kanpur saw many of them gathering together for a protest march.

On Sunday, the Mayawati government suspended seven more IPS officers for their alleged involvement in the recruitment scam.

Over 17,000 recruitments have been cancelled, and over a dozen FIRs filed against officials involved in the recruitments.

The government had also issued directives for initiating departmental proceedings against 40 other police officials involved in the recruitment.

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 said in Lucknow on Sunday.

Mayawati's government also says there were several irregularities in the evaluation of the answer sheets of the aspirants.

The state government has promised that fresh recruitments will be held within six months and if the findings of Additional Director General of UP Police, Shailja Kant Mishra — who’s heading the probe — turn out to be true, this scandal is far from over.

The recruitments were made to the Uttar Pradesh Police force during the rule of the Samajwadi Party.

An inquiry instigated by Mayawati had opened a can of worms with Mishra making some shocking revelations.

"I hang my head in shame. The girl recruits have alleged that they were sexually abused before their recruitment," she said.

Mishra has also hinted at a politician-police nexus in the recruitments.