Akhilesh Yadav shares video of IPS officer demanding ₹20 lakh bribe; probe on

A probe has been ordered after Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav tweeted an vintage video of an IPS officer traumatic cash from a businessman on Sunday and attacked the Yogi Adityanath authorities in Uttar Pradesh asking it whether or not it’s going to take “bulldozer” motion towards the officer.

Anirudh Singh, an IPS officer with the UP Police, is reportedly published in Varanasi. He is purportedly visible asking a person on a video name to set up for ₹20 lakh. The purported video has been said to be of the time whilst Singh turned into published in Meerut district. The police commissioner has been requested to put up his file on the problem, information organization PTI reported.

“After this video of an IPS traumatic cash in UP, will the route of bulldozers alternate toward him or will the BJP authorities put off the problem via way of means of including one extra call to the listing of absconding IPS? The human beings of UP are seeing the fact of BJP`s zero-tolerance toward crime,” Akhilesh Yadav tweeted along side a 10-2d clip of the video.

Responding to Yadav’s tweet, the Meerut Police stated, “This video is over 2 years vintage and does now no longer have any reference to Meerut. Probe has been finished withinside the matter.”

Later, the director standard of the UP Police issued a assertion pronouncing police are probing the contents of the video, that is extra than years vintage.”A video of Shri Anirudh Singh, IPS officer appointed as SP Rural in district Meerut, goes viral wherein he’s visible talking with someone via video name. On the idea of the stated video, allegations of corruption are being levelled towards Singh,” an respectable launch issued via way of means of the DGP stated.

“The stated case is two years vintage, however in view of the seriousness of the case, the Police Headquarters has inquired approximately it from the Commissioner Varanasi, modern-day posting of the officer and sought a file inside three days,” it stated.

Meanwhile, the police have released every other research towards Singh’s spouse, who’s additionally an IPS officer, over allegations made in a tweet towards her of now no longer paying hire to her landlord, PTI reported.

Aarti Singh, who’s published as DCP Varuna area commissionerate in Varanasi, has been accused of now no longer paying hire for her flat, the DGP workplace stated.

“Aarti Singh is the spouse of Anirudh Singh. We have come to realize that Aarti Singh has paid her hire and there may be no exceptional balance, however the Police Headquarters has requested Commissioner Varanasi to probe the problem and deliver his file inside three days,” it stated.