Lucknow6 minutes ago
UP’s Director General of Police i.e. DGP Mukul Goyal has been removed from the post by the Yogi government. He has been accused of negligence in the works of the government and not being able to control crime. Goyal has been made the DG of Civil Defense. Mukul Goyal, a resident of Shamli, is a 1987 batch IPS officer and was made the chief of the UP Police on July 1. Mukul Goyal has been ADG Law and Order under Akhilesh Yadav.
ADG Law and Order Prashant Kumar will take over as DGP till the new officer is selected. There is a discussion that the new DGP can come from Delhi. Although there are 4 IPS names in the race to become DGP on the basis of seniority. These include RP Singh, GL Meena and RK Vishwakarma and DS Chauhan. DS Chauhan is currently on deputation to the Centre. He still has 3 years left in his term.
Mukul Goyal was made DGP on June 30, 2021
Mukul Goel was appointed as the DGP on June 30, 2021. Mukul Goyal has also received many awards including Gallantry Award and Ati Utkrisht Seva Medal from Ministry of Home Affairs. Mukul Goyal was earlier posted in the center. He was brought to Uttar Pradesh before the UP elections. However, he was removed only 11 months after Yogi Adityanath’s second term.
It is believed that CM Yogi was not happy with his work. This is the reason why this discussion was going on for a long time to remove Mukul Goyal. Actually, questions were being raised about the increase in criminal incidents in UP.
IPS Goyal has B.Tech and MBA from IIT, Delhi
Born on February 22, 1964 in Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Mukul Goyal is a B.Tech in Electronics from IIT, Delhi. He has also done MBA. After becoming IPS in 1987, Mukul Goyal’s first posting was in Nainital as Additional SP. At that time UP and Uttarakhand were one. After finishing the probation period, he was appointed as SP City Bareilly.
Almora was the first district of Mukul Goyal as captain. After Almora, he was the captain of many districts continuously. These include Jalaun, Mainpuri, Azamgarh, Hathras, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Saharanpur, Meerut. He was the DIG of Range for Agra Kanpur Bareilly in 2004. From here he went on central deputation.
He was made DIG-ITBI. After being promoted to the post of IG in 2009, he got the responsibility of NDRF and Civil Defense. Mukul Goyal was sent here before the UP elections, 2022.
IPS Mukul also has a deep connection with controversies
It’s about 2000. Then Mukul Goyal was the SSP in Saharanpur. There BJP leader Nirbhay Pal Sharma was murdered. After this Mukul Goyal was suspended. It was alleged that Nirbhay Pal had sought help expressing fear of life and property. But the police did not reach on time. In the year 2005-06, the names of 25 IPS officers were revealed in the alleged police recruitment scam, one of them was Mukul Goyal.
Petition was filed in the High Court against making DGP
After being appointed as DGP, a case was registered against Mukul Goyal by the High Court. A PIL was filed in the High Court alleging corruption. This petition has been filed in Allahabad High Court on behalf of Avinash Prakash Pathak. It said that Mukul Goel was accused of widespread corruption in UP Police recruitment in 2005-06. In this case, a case was also registered against him at the Mahanagar police station in Lucknow.
Petitioner Mukesh Sahni has said that in 2007, the then state government had also ordered an inquiry in this matter. The then DGP Vikram Singh handed over the investigation of the case to the Anti-Corruption Department. In this case, on 23 February 2018, Mukesh Sahni, IPS Section Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, had also written a letter to the then Principal Secretary Home of UP to investigate corruption.
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