The government of a north Indian state has sacked 6,500 police constables, citing irregularities in their recruitment, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
Twelve of their superiors belonging to Indian elite police service were also booked in connection with their recruitment in the Uttar Pradesh state.
The constables who lost their job were appointed when wrestler- turned-politician Mulayam Singh Yadav was chief minister of the state.
He lost power this year after his opponent Mayawati, a Hindu low-caste leader, swept the state elections.
The sack order came on the basis of the report of an inquiry committee set up by Mayawati to examine police recruitment during her predecessor's rule.
The investigation committee unearthed large-scale irregularities in the recruitment of constables, the news report quoted J. N. Chamber, Uttar Pradesh's principal home secretary, as saying.
Source: Xinhua
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