Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav finally cracked the whip on deteriorating law and order situation when he shunted out Ambrish Chandra Sharma and posted Dev Raj Nagar, as new director general of police of the State on Friday evening.
Dev Raj Nagar, an IPS officer of 1976 batch is one of the senior most officer in the police department besides Atul Kumar. He was till now posted as DG of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC). Ambrish Chandra Sharma, an IPS officer of 1976 batch will now replace Nagar as DG (PAC).
Nagar is due to retire in December this year.
It may be mentioned that just on last Saturday, the Samajwadi Party legislators during their meeting with chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and SP supremo, Mulayam Singh Yadav had said to have lodged serious compliant that both principal secretary (Home) RM Srivastava and DGP, Ambrish Chandra Sharma were not listening to their suggestions on law and order front and mostly ignore their appeals in this regard. Soon after this meeting, Akhilesh Yadav also reportedly summoned RM Srivastava at his official residence earlier this week and had warned him to improve law and order besides directing him to give due response to calls made by the peoples representatives in this regard.
However, things on law and order already gone out of control even when Akhilesh soon after riots at Faizabad took serious cognizance and had removed than ADG (law and order) Jagmohan Yadav, and replaced him with Arun Kumar. Sources said that what hit the further prospect of Ambrish Chandra Sharma and sealed his fate is the recent behavior of the cops in Bulundshahr, in which a 10-year-old rape victim was confined to lock-up. Chief Justice of India, had already took suo motu cognizance of the matter and had sought a detailed reply from the state government on coming Monday.
Sources said that though the cops posted at Mahila police station were placed under suspension after the interventions of the SC but to save his government from any embarrassment when the Apex court will take up the matter on coming Monday, chief minister took initiative and shunted out DGP Ambrish Chandra Sharma for failing to improve the deteriorating law and order as well as image of the police. It may be also mentioned here that Akhilesh was already annoyed with Ambrish Chandra Sharma regarding the sensational incident of Balipur in Pratapgarh where a Deputy SP, Zia-ul-Haq was said to be lynched a mob just as the cops escaped from the spot.