BAREILLY: Sub-divisional Justice of the Peace of Meerganj tehsil right here has been faraway from his put up after a video surfaced through which he’s purportedly seen to have requested a person to squat in his workplace as a punishment. The person reached the SDM’s workplace to lodge his criticism about alleged encroachment of a cremation floor however the official allegedly instructed him “murga bano (squatting and holding each ears)” as a punishment. A video of the incident went viral on Friday.
Divisional Commissioner of Bareilly Saumya Agarwal on Saturday mentioned {that a} probe has been ordered into the incident. District Justice of the Peace of Bareilly Shivakant Dwivedi mentioned that prima facie laxity on the a part of the SDM Udit Pawar has emerged and he has been hooked up to the district headquarters. Pawar has been changed by Desh Deepak Singh as Bareilly SDM.
Pawar has denied all allegations saying the complainant squatted on his personal . “I didn’t ask any complainant to squat. The youth who got here to my workplace squatted on his personal as he entered my room. His mates took images and made movies, after which made these movies viral.” “I assured them that the matter might be probed by the tehsildar, and motion might be taken if any encroachment of cremation floor is discovered,” Pawar added.
The complainant, Pappu Lodhi, has alleged that when he and a few villagers requested the SDM to behave on the alleged encroachment in Mandanpur village, Pawar received indignant and insulted them after which requested him to squat as punishment. Villagers of Mandanpur village mentioned that the cremation floor has been encroached by some Muslims. The one different various to the cremation floor is to carry out final rites on the banks of Ramganga river, they mentioned. However for the reason that river is at the moment in spate, the final rites can’t be carried out there too, they added.
On Friday, villagers, together with Ramkumar, Puranlal, Dharampal, Gedan Lal and Lodhi, gave a memorandum to SDM Pawar on the matter, to which they have been instructed that motion might be taken on the idea of a report by tehsildar. Lodhi mentioned that after they complained in regards to the delay in taking any motion on the matter, the SDM received indignant, requested the villagers to go away the room and instructed him to squat.
Reacting to the incident, Samajwadi Social gathering chief Akhilesh Yadav hit out on the “autocratic paperwork below the monopoly rule in Uttar Pradesh”. In a social media put up on X (in Hindi) Yadav mentioned, “Truth: That is the true face of the autocratic paperwork below the monopoly rule in Uttar Pradesh and a real image of the official-government atrocities being dedicated on the weak and weak individuals of Uttar Pradesh.” “Concept: Dictatorship comes from the highest to down and turns into part of the behaviour of officers from the nationwide capital to the state capital,” he mentioned.
तथ्य: ये है उप्र में एकाधिकारी शासन के अंतर्गत निरंकुश नौकरशाही का असली चेहरा और उप्र के कमज़ोर-निर्बल लोगों के ऊपर किये जा रहे आधिकारिक-सरकारी अत्याचार की एक सच्ची तस्वीर।
सिद्धांत: तानाशाही ऊपर से नीचे आती है और देश की राजधानी से प्रदेश की राजधानी होते हुए अधिकारियों के भी… pic.twitter.com/iekMQEXGhg
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) September 16, 2023
“Expectation: The federal government ought to take suo motu cognizance and droop the officer and conduct an inquiry or the court docket ought to take suo motu cognizance of it,” Yadav mentioned. The SP chief additionally made a comment on the color of the garments the complainant was carrying. “WARNING: Earlier than making the complainant squat (fariyadi ko murga banane se pehle), the officer ought to have paid consideration to the ‘color’ of his garments. Do not know if the BJP authorities makes the official stand within the ‘very particular punitive physique posture’ (ati vishisht dandatmak sharirik mudra) for insulting a specific ‘color’,” he mentioned within the X put up.
