Senior Superintendent of Police of Noida, Vaibhav Krishna, seems to be staring down the barrel as Director General of Police (DGP) OP Singh on Friday sought an explanation from him for the leaking out of his recent confidential letter to the state government.
At a hurriedly convened press conference in Lucknow on Friday, the DGP said that the SSP of Noida had been given 15 days to explain whether he had flouted service conduct rules by leaking the missive.
Singh said that Inspector General of Meerut Range, Alok Singh, had been asked to enquire into the matter and a show-cause notice was served on Vaibhav Krishna on Friday morning.
The IG has been given 15 days’ time to complete the enquiry and submit his report for further action.
The DGP claimed that he would come out with the findings once the IG, Meerut, submitted his findings.
Earlier, Vaibhav Krishna had alleged corruption in the ranks of UP Police and levelled serious charges of bribe for postings against five fellow officers.
The Noida SSP’s letter to the government mentioned that details of graft emerged during a probe into a case in which four people were arrested in Noida on August 23, 2019.
The SSP sent a report on some “very sensitive cases” related to corruption a month ago to the Chief Minister’s Office in Lucknow.
Earlier this week, the Gautam Buddha Nagar district administration had announced booking 128 members of three criminal gangs under UP Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986 and initiated proceedings to attach their properties, in a bid to choke their funding.
The decision was taken on the basis of a report prepared by the Noida police and the accused included kingpins of gangs involved in contract killing, extortion and various contracts relating to private businesses in the district.
A few days back, three videos had gone viral on social media showing some explicit content featuring the Noida SSP but they were dismissed by Krishna as a conspiracy to sully his image because he had started a crusade against corruption in which some journalists and IPS officers were involved.
Krishna clarified that his image was morphed and hence he got a criminal case registered in the matter so that the culprits instrumental in making the videos viral could be arrested.