The Uttar Pradesh Government on Thursday suspended Noida Police chief (SSP) Vaibhav Krishna as the objectionable video involving him was proved to be authentic, officials said.
The Government also transferred five other IPS officers whom the Noida SSP had named in the leaked letter he had sent to State police chief OP Singh for being involved in the transfer racket.
They are Sudhir Singh (SSP Ghaziabad), Ajay Pal Sharma (SP Rampur), Ganesh Saha (SP Banda), Himanshu Kumar (SP Sultanpur) and Rajeev Narayan Mishra (SSP Special Task Force Lucknow).
“Vaibhav had himself made a complaint over the circulation of the clip... The video clips were sent to a Gujarat-based forensic lab which concluded that the video is not edited or morphed. There is no sign of edit,” the official added.
While Krishna has been suspended, a three-member high-level committee has been formed to probe the allegations of corruption he made against the five officers and submit a report in 15 days, a government official said. The Government spokesman claimed that the action had been initiated under the ‘zero tolerance’ policy of the Yogi Government towards corruption.
Krishna had claimed that it was a morphed video aimed at maligning his image. He had even lodged a report against unknown persons for making the video viral.
In his FIR, Krishna had alleged that the video was fake and was posted by some IPS officers and journalists to malign his image as he had initiated action against them for their corrupt practices.