Government Files Chargesheets Against 470 Corrupt Uttar Pradesh Officials
GG News Bureau
Lucknow, 15th Sep. As part of the zero-tolerance policy made by the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh Home Department has filed chargesheets against 470 corrupt government officials in the state.
The chargesheets in 207 cases have been filed in the court.
As per a senior Home Department official, “in the past four years, departmental action has also been taken by vigilance establishment in 142 cases related to corruption, while it got prosecution sanction in 202 cases and minor punishment in 10 cases and recovery in seven others.”
To make the functioning of vigilance establishment more efficient, 10 sectors in Lucknow, Meerut, Bareilly, Agra, Ayodhya, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Jhansi and Kanpur have been opened, said Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Avanish Awasthi.
1,156 investigations were ordered by the UP government in the last four years, according to the vigilance establishment,
Out of these mentioned investigations, 267 were deep investigations, 497 open, 168 confidential, and 169 were cases of intelligence gathering and trap, 55 proceedings were conducted.
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