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LUCKNOW: In a significant choice, the Uttar Pradesh authorities has proceeded to drop the fees in opposition to former deputy superintendent of police (DySP) Shailendra Singh, who had resigned from the companies in 2004 after he had a fallout with the ruling Samajwadi Celebration authorities for recommending arrest of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari underneath Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
The choice of the Yogi authorities to drop fees in opposition to the ex-cop was accepted by a Varanasi court docket. The cop was slapped with dozens of fees by the then SP dispensation for allegedly difficult the would possibly of the mafia don.
The Yogi authorities had moved the Varanasi court docket in search of to drop the fees in opposition to Shailendra and the plea was accepted by the Varanasi court docket on March 6. Shailendra was handed over a duplicate of the court docket order on Tuesday (March 30, 2021).
Whereas reacting to the choice, the previous cop heaved a sigh of aid saying the reality had lastly prevailed. He instructed the media individuals that it was due to the prison case that he was unable to acquire a passport or an arms licence.
The ex-cop claimed that the prison case slapped on him was an arm twisting tactic of the then political masters to silence him.
It could be recalled that Shailendra Singh, DySP, having fun with the picture of an trustworthy and upright officer, had faxed his resignation to the then UP Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri after he was allegedly ‘requested by his bosses’ to not provoke POTA proceedings in opposition to Mukhtar Ansari in a gun-running case in February 2004.
The transfer rocked the state meeting that was in session because the opposition mounted its assault on the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led authorities. The then chief of opposition Lalji Tandon had termed the developments as a sign of prevailing rot within the system. He had urged the governor to maintain the choice of recommending dismissal of the state authorities as the event was seen because the breakdown of Constitutional equipment within the state.
Nevertheless, after the resignation by the DySP, the Mulayam authorities tried to tame the officer by slapping a prison case on Shailendra Singh and he was arrested later.
After quitting the police pressure, Shailendra determined to contest the 2004 Lok Sabha election from Varanasi as an unbiased candidate however misplaced. He then joined the Congress social gathering and tried his luck from Chandauli in 2009. Within the 2012 meeting elections, he contested on the Congress ticket from Saiyadraja meeting constituency in Chandauli however misplaced.
After virtually a seven-year stint with the Congress, Shailendra Singh joined the BJP on April 15, 2014. Within the 2014 Lok Sabha election, he was accountable for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘conflict room’ in Varanasi.
