ADG suspended for controversial interview to news portal

LUCKNOW: The state government on Tuesday suspended a 1992batch IPS officer of ADG rank, Jasvir Singh, for making controversial statements in an interview to news portal Huffington Post.

The UP police website, however, shows that the ADG has been under suspension since February 14.

Singh, presently posted as ADG, Rules and Manual, had taken action against senior politicians like Yogi Adityanath and Raghuraj Pratap Singh aka Raja Bhaiya in 2002-03.

Principal secretary (home) Arvind Kumar confirmed that the ADG has been suspended for violation of code of conduct for government servants.

“Action was initiated against the ADG for two reasons — for making controversial statements in an interview to a news portal

THE OFFICER HAD INITIATED NSA PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THEN GORAKHPUR MP AND PRESENT CM YOGI ADITYANATH IN 2002

and for his unauthorised absence from duty since February 4. The officer went on leave without getting it sanctioned from competent authorities,” he added.

In an interview to Huffington Post on January 30, the ADG had said that he was given dead-end postings in his career as he tried to hold politicians and ministers accountable.

Alleging that politicians want officers to remain loyal to them, Singh had said: “They want loyalty to political persons. This is totally unconstitutional. If we don’t resist, things won’t change.”

He claimed that he held posts entailing actual police work only for six months and was given postings with little to do in the remaining years of his service.

In 2002, during his 16-day stint as the superintendent of police (SP) of Maharajganj, Singh had initiated proceedings to invoke the National Security Act (NSA) against present chief minister and then Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath in an old case of violation of prohibitory orders in 1995.

However, the move was later scuttled.

In 2003, during his tenure as the SP of UP police’s food cell, he had accused the then Samajwadi Party minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya of corruption in the multi-crore food scam in Lakhimpur Kheri.

Repeated attempts to contact Singh failed as his mobile phone was found to be switched off. People associated to him said he was on leave and has probably left for his home town in Hoshiarpur, Punjab.