29 cops slapped with criminal cases in Uttar Pradesh in three months

LUCKNOW: As many as 29 police personnel across the state have been booked in the past three months in connection with murder, custodial deaths, assault and falsely implicating innocent people. Cases have been registered on the instances of senior police officials to ensure that men in khaki adhere to human rights limitations.
Senior police officers at DGP headquarters said that law was equal for everyone.If cops are wrong, they should be punished under law. A police constable, deployed in the security of a murder convict, shot one to death in Vibhuti Khand, Lucknow, on Wednesday. Similarly, last week, three cops were booked in Sultanpur for the murder of a dalit in custody. Earlier, two policemen were booked in Unnao for the murder of an 18-year-old vegetable vendor. Last month, eight cops were booked for a custodial death in Ambedkarnagar .
Four cops were also booked in Mathura on charges of attempt to murder in March, while a case was recently registered against an inspector for assaulting hospital staff in Pratapgarh. In Etah, three cops were arrested for framing 10 people over payment of food bill in March-end.
Likewise, three policemen, including a sub-inspector, were booked in Badaun for releasing arrested youths for Rs 90,000. They were charged with prevention of corruption act in the last week of May. In Lucknow police commissionerate, a CB-CID probe revealed that two sub-inspectors and two constables framed a hotelier on fake charges. All these four cops were booked under the charges of public servant disobeying law, public servant framing incorrect record, punishment for wrongful confinement and arms act in the first week of April.
A senior officer at the DGP Headquarters said, all the district police chiefs have been instructed to take strict action if any ‘man in khaki’ is found to be indulging in crime and lawlessness.
“UP police force is the most disciplined and we have done maximum dismissals of personnel than any other government department against all those who were caught on the wrong side of the law,” said another officer.