Lucknow Mar 31 PTI The Uttar Pradesh government has suspended Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police Pawan Kumar for the alleged dereliction of duty and the failure to control crime an official statement said on Thursday The suspension has come barely three days after three bike-borne robbers looted Rs 25 lakh from the staffers of a petrol pump located in B Block of Govindpuram Colony under the Masuri police station area in Ghaziabad The employees of the petrol pump were enroute to a bank when the incident took place In a statement issued here Additional Chief Secretary Home Awanish Awasthi said The SSP Ghaziabad has been suspended for dereliction of duty and the failure to control crime An IPS officer of the 2009 batch Pawan Kumar was posted in Ghaziabad in August last year PTI NAV RDK RDK

Lucknow Feb 19 PTI The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to lift the coronavirus-induced night curfew as the state witnesses a sustained decline in COVID-19 casesThe night curfew hours in the state was between 1000 pm to 600 am which was relaxed by an hour from February 13 Additional Chief Secretary Home Awanish Awasthi said the decision to end night curfew from tonight itself was taken in view of the decline in COVID-19 cases PTI NAV TIR TIR

Lucknow Feb 19 PTI The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to lift the coronavirus-induced night curfew as the state witnesses a sustained decline in COVID-19 casesThe night curfew hours in the state was between 1000 pm to 600 am which was relaxed by an hour from February 13 Additional Chief Secretary Home Awanish Awasthi said the decision to end night curfew was taken following the decline in COVID-19 cases PTI NAV TIR TIR

Lucknow Jan 22 PTI The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday extended the closure of schools in the state till January 30 in view of rising coronavirus cases in the stateThe closure of schools has been extended till January 30 and online classes will continue according to an order issued by Additional Chief Secretary Home Awanish Kumar AwasthiThe government had earlier ordered closure of the educational institutions till January 23 in view of a rise in Covid cases PTI SAB ANB ANB

Lucknow Sep 26 PTI A police official has been suspended following Saturdays incident in which BJP MP Sangam Lal Gupta had accused former Congress MP Pramod Tiwari of leading a mob of his partys workers to beat him up and his partys activists during a social function Pratapgarh district Lalganj Circle Officer Jagmohan Singh has been suspended for laxity in duty Additional Director General of Police Law and Order Prashant Kumar said on SundayIn a statement issued here Additional Chief Secretary Home Awanish Awasthi said that additional director general of police administration in his report had mentioned that Circle Officer Singh did not arrange adequate police force at the venue of the important programme -- Gareeb Kalyan Mela -- in Sangipur block in PratapgarhDue to this a serious law and order situation emerged the statement saidCiting the report he added that it is clear from it that the circle officer showed laxity and inaction in discharge of duty which is not expected from a gazetted police officerThis has tarnished the image of the government and the department Hence he has been suspended with immediate effect and departmental action has been initiated against him Awasthi saidBJPs Pratapgarh MP Gupta on Saturday accused former Congress MP Tiwari of leading a mob of his party workers to beat him up and his partys activists during a the function in Sangipur blockThe issue prompted police to register a case against 27 persons including the senior Congress leader and his daughterThe alleged incident led Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to order the district administration to take strict action in the incident in which Gupta alleged his kurta was also torn by the assailantsInstructions have been issued for speedy and strict action in the incident of attack on BJP MP and national general secretary of BJPs Pichhda Varg Morch Sangam Lal Gupta during the Gareeb Kalyan Mela in Sangipur block in Pratapgarh district Maurya had said in a tweet on SaturdayActing Superintendent of Police Prakash Dwivedi said that acting on the complaint lodged by the BJP MP a case has been registered against 27 persons including Pramod Tiwari his daughter Aradhana Misra and 50 unknown persons under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Criminal Law Amendment Act PTI NAV ANB ANB