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CORRUPTION

Noida police chief fired the leaked letter. Alleging
large-scale corruption in
the state police department,
over sex video, letters the opposition parties have
demanded a judicial probe
into the functioning of all
government departments of
the state.
SSP Vaibhav Krishna’s leaked letters alleged hefty bribes in In the letter, earlier in
transfers and postings of IPS cadre which works under the 2019, Krishna had alleged
corruption in the ranks
direct command of the UP CM, reports mudit mathur of UP Police, including
serious charges of bribes
for postings, and involves
he Uttar Pradesh names of some RSS func-
government tionaries with high political
has finally got a connections.
way to get rid of He accused several IPS
T embarrassment officers of corruption and
caused by actions of an IPS
officer whose leaked letters
were creating ripples in the Gautam Buddh
turbulent political waters
of the state over allegations Nagar’s SSP, who
of hefty bribes in transfers is in the middle
and postings of IPS cadre
which works under the of a row over an
direct command of chief objectionable
minister Yogi Adityanath.
Uneasy calm was witnessed video and a
on his face when opposition leaked letter
targeted him on the func-
tioning of home department alleging
alleging corruption charges
in recently held assembly corruption in
session citing these letters. the force, denies
After the turmoil in
assembly over the issue the charges
and persistent demand
of opposition parties for a because he wrote a con- Earlier this week, the Ut- demanding hefty bribes for
fair judicial probe, the state fidential letter to govern- tar Pradesh DGP OP Singh better positions in the state.
government has finally ment about corruption in also sought for an explana- The letter mentions that
suspended controversial transfer- posting of five IPS tion from the accused Noida details of graft had emerged
Noida Police SSP Vaibhav officers and termed video SSP Krishna on the leaking during the investigation
Krishna days after his confi- clips as ‘morphed.’ He also of his purported confi- of a case in which four
dential letter written to the registered a case regarding dential letter to the state people, some claiming to be
state government alleging this under his own influ- government. He was report- journalists, were arrested
corruption by five other IPS ence of jurisdiction. The edly given 15 days to explain in Noida on August 23, 2019,
officers surfaced in public video which he called as whether he had flouted during the investigation of
domain. ‘morphed’ was found to service rules by leaking out a case (806/19 section 2(B)4,
Krishna hurriedly called be authentic by a Gujarat- the letter. 2(B)8, 2(B)11) of the Gangsters
a press conference in Noida based forensic science labo- When asked to comment Act in which four journalist
to offer his defence about ratory. This paved the way on the situation, the DGP, stringers were arrested.
his viral sex videos blaming for initiating administrative however, avoidedcom-
it a conspiracy against him proceedings against him. menting on the contents of LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM

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