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Raghuraj Pratap Singh aka Raja Bhaiya, • Fired after remarks IPS officer Jasvir Singh Singh is now serving as ADG (Addi-
in the Mulayam Singh Yadav govern- (inset) has been fired after remarks on Yogi tional Director General of Police) Rules
ment, of corruption in the Lakhimpur and Manual in UP, a post that requires
Kheri food scam. Even CBI officers who him to do no work. “I go attend office.
were investigating the food scam on the “They want loyalty to political per- There is a small room. I sit there from
directives of High Court admired the sons. This is totally unconstitutional,” 9:30 am sharp. I take my lunch like a
fact how Jasvir placed incontrovertible he said. “If we don’t resist, things won’t school boy. I have 40 to 50 books that
evidences in the investigation leav- change. Resisting is the most reward- I have got privately. I keep reading one
ing no escape to nail him in the trials. ing thing especially when there is a big after the other and at 6:00 pm sharp,
As soon as he implicated the minister allurement.” “I became a police officer to I leave without doing any work,” he said.
in the scam he was transferred out of serve the public, not politicians. There “I’m being paid whatever an ADG is
the Food Cell of the UP police. If Singh is no middle path when you are serv- entitled to without any public job
anguishes about the wasted years, the ing the people. You have no option but being done.
police officer does not let on. He used complete adherence to the rules of the It appears that the suspension of
to say that taking a stand and sticking is service,” he remarked. “You have got to Jasvir Singh is not just account of his
better than being a “career bureaucrat.” be honest.” recent interview but long nurtured
“They want loyalty to political per- Under the present Adityanath-led malice about him in his superiors who
sons. This is totally unconstitutional. BJP government, which is accused opted for favours to stay blessed with
When asked if he sees himself as a role of resorting to extra judicial killings greener postures by deeply associating
model for young officers who might to maintain law and order, Singh has with venomous clandestine activities of
be at the crossroads — agonizing over no work. Even if he did have a “main- various political masters. Jasvir exposed
kowtowing to politicians for the sake stream” posting, the police officer fun- this nexus in a seminar held in the con-
of their careers — Singh asks why a big damentally disagrees with “encounter” stitution club at the national capital
deal is made of something that should killings becoming the norm. “You are where he had narrated entire story
be “normal.” “You don’t need to be a killing people in the name of democ- and at the end, he recited revolutionary
messiah to perform your duties. Nor- racy. How does that happen?” Speaking couplets of a Punjabi poet dedicated to
mal duties demand that you act with of “encounter” killings under any po- the martyrs who sacrificed their lives
absolute integrity and total allegiance litical regime, he said, “Only rival gangs for our nation.
to the constitution,” he said in the are eliminated. It is not even equitable
interview. elimination” letters@tehelka.com

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