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UP police chief taking bribes, says junior officer

In a development that has shocked the state’s police machinery, a middle rung police officer has levelled serious allegations of corruption against the UP police chief and even charged him with taking bribes for transfers. A police spokesman has denied all charges, and an inquiry has been ordered against the police officer making the charges.

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In a development that has shocked the state’s police machinery, a middle rung police officer has levelled serious allegations of corruption against the UP police chief and even charged him with taking bribes for transfers. A police spokesman has denied all charges, and an inquiry has been ordered against the police officer making the charges.

“No one can get any work done in the UP police without paying money. Even the UP police chief (director general of police AC Sharma) does not issue transfer orders without taking money,” a deputy SP-level officer VK Sharma told reporters in Bulandshahr on Monday.

Between July 2011 and August this year, Sharma has been shunted half a dozen times, with the average tenure of his posting being a mere two months. In December 2011, he was transferred from Aligarh in western UP to Ghazipur in a remote corner of east UP. Three months later, he was again transferred from Ghazipur to Etah in west UP.

Sharma told reporters that the Etah SSP Ajay Mohan had been mounting pressure on him to release the accused in a dowry case as they were related to a senior Samajwadi Party leader of the district. He said he had been shunted out of Etah because of this.

Sharma has alleged that he was being unduly for raising his voice against this high-handedness. “The IPS officers think of PPS (provincial police service) officers as their servants. No one can say a word against their harassment tactics, and if one does, he is punished like I am being now,” he told reporters.

However, IG, Law and Order, BP Singh, has denied all charges and said Sharma had been known for insubordination. He said while Sharma was posted to Aligarh in August this year, he joined over two months later in October without taking any leave. He also pointed out that Sharma had gone to court twice against his transfer orders. Singh said an inquiry was being conducted into the matter.

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