IPS body rejects UP riots report

The UP IPS Association has outrightly rejected the Vishnu Sahay Commission report on the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 that indicted IPS officer Subahsh Chandra Dubey, then posted as SSP in Muzaffarnagar.

The IPS association will soon meet UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and prevail upon him not to initiate any penal action against former SSP Muzaffarnagar Subhash Chandra Dubey.

The IPS association has dismissed the indictment of Mr Dubey as unwarranted and said that it was unfair to pin the blame on only one officer.

“If the local administration failed to control the situation, the civil officers are also to blame,” said a senior IPS officer.

IPS Association working secretary IG Prakash D. told reporters, “We will appeal to the chief minister to withdraw all penal proceedings against the IPS officer and the police inspector that have been initiated in connection with the riots.”

He further said, “The UP IPS Association does not agree with the Sahay Commission report as Dubey was in charge of the district for just 12 days and while he had given a 27-page testimony, not a single line was included in the final report”

Senior police officials also alleged the state government was trying to ‘find a scapegoat’ in Dubey and hence he has been picked up while three other district police chiefs were spared where the riots had also taken place. Mr Subhash Chandra Dubey, a 2005 batch IPS officer, is presently posted at the security headquarters in Lucknow after remaining suspended for nearly three months after the riots. He was posted in Muzaffarnagar, two days after the riots began and was suspended eight days later for his failure to contain the violence.