Prayagraj SSP suspended for graft, no crime control

LUCKNOW: Taking strong note of the complaints of corrupt practices and failure to control law and order, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday suspended

Prayagraj police chief Abhishek Dixit

.


Lucknow deputy commissioner of police (DCP) West, Sarvashresth Tripathi, has been appointed the new superintendent of police of Prayagraj. Both Dixit and Tripathi are

IPS officers

of 2006 batch and are on deputation in UP. Dixit is from Tamil Nadu cadre and Tripathi from Andhra Pradesh.

So far, the government has suspended five IPS officers this year. Last year, another SSP of Prayagraj, Atul Sharma, had been suspended after a spate of killings in the city.

The home department said in a press release on Tuesday that the decision to suspend Dixit was taken after multiple complaints against the officer of indulging in corrupt practices for transfers and postings.


It was also reported to the government that Dixit was not following instructions from the police headquarters, said a senior home department official.

The officer was also not undertaking any checking drive of banks and financial institutions and patrolling in the district while there was also no reduction on pendency of cases, the official added. Dixit has also been accused of not implementing social distancing in the district.

In 2012 also, while serving in Tamil Nadu, Dixit was under Vigilance scanner for having amassed more wealth than his known sources of income. In July 2019, Dixit came on deputation to UP and made commandant in the PAC 35th battalion.

He was made SSP Prayagraj on June 16, replacing

Satyarth Anirudh Pankaj

, who is still on the waiting list. Dixit would now be attached to the DGP headquarters in Lucknow. Tripathi is the fourth police chief of Prayagraj in the past one year.

So far, five IPS officers have been suspended in the state, of which three have been accused of corruption. The two others have been found guilty of misconduct.

On August 24, DIG PAC, Agra, Arvind Sen and DIG (Rules and Manuals) Dinesh Dubey were suspended for corrupt practices. In January, after leak of inappropriate video involving the then SSP GB Nagar, Vaibhav Krishna, he was suspended. Another IPS officer posted as ASP in Kanpur Nagar, Aparna Gupta, was suspended for laxity in murder case of lab technician Sanjit Yadav in Kanpur.

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