UP top cop & Yogi’s favourite IPS officer Prashant Kumar out of race to become ‘full-time’ DGP
Yogi’s favourite cop out of ‘full-time’ DGP race
Prashant Kumar, Uttar Pradesh’s acting DGP, seems to be out of the race to take over as the state’s top cop sans ‘acting’ in the title. The 1990-batch IPS officer was appointed acting DGP in January this year. When the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government formulated a new set of rules for the appointment of a full-time DGP on 5 November, speculation was rife that Kumar nearly managed to drop ‘acting’ from his current posting.
But, Kumar it appears is now out of the race since the UP government failed to initiate the process for him to be eligible for the job in time.
Appointment rules state that only those IPS officers who have at least six months of service left can be considered for the post. In Kumar’s case, his retirement from service is d...
