Surya Pratap Singh is an officer of the IAS group from 1982 who retired in 2015.
Lucknow:
A file was filed against a retired IAS officer in Uttar Pradesh by police for a tweet on Wednesday, in which he raised questions about state government testing policy related to the coronavirus pandemic and alleged that a senior Uttar Pradesh government official was asking field officials to district to slow down the testing of samples.
The first information report (FIR) filed at the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow last night mentions the June 10 tweet from Surya Pratap Singh, the former IAS officer in question.
Singh tweeted in Hindi: “After the team meeting of Chief Minister Yogi’s team 11, the chief secretary berated the district magistrates who were doing a large number of Corona tests saying, ‘Why did you speed up at such a rate, are you going to a prize that you shout test, test? “. @ChiefSecyUP please clarify? No test = no Corona Uttar Pradesh strategy? “
The FIR says that the tweet contains false facts and false information, and has led to an atmosphere of fear among the general public. Mr. Singh has been charged with disobedience of rules, intent to incite and other sections of the epidemic control law.
Surya Pratap Singh is an officer of the 1982 IAS group who retired in 2015. His last position was that of senior secretary to the government of Uttar Pradesh, but the retired officer was best known for his outspokenness. even when he was on duty. Six months before his retirement in 2015, the officer requested a voluntary retirement, saying: “It was impossible for an honest officer to work in Uttar Pradesh”.
The leader of the Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav, was then the Chief Minister of the State. Prior to his request for voluntary retirement, Mr. Singh had made the headlines for criticizing the Uttar Pradesh government on various platforms, including social media.
The retired officer reacted to the FIR against him, tweeting in Hindi, “said Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath.ji, if you are mad at me for raising the issue of irregularities in the recruitment process for elementary school teachers, you don’t need to make a random tweet as a basis for extracting revenge. You can file a direct complaint against me after strangling “freedom of expression”. “
