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Former IAS questions Corona strategy: UP police lodges FIR
By IndianMandarins- 13 Jun 2020
1891UP Police registered a case against a former IAS officer after he questioned the state government’s coronavirus strategy on his Twitter account. The FIR lodged against Surya Pratap Singh (IAS:1982) who retired in 2015, says his tweet has wrong facts and misinformation and has led to an atmosphere of fear among the public at large. The case has been registered on the complaint of the in-charge of secretariat chowki, Subhash Singh, on June 11 at the Hazratganj Kotwali for giving false information about government efforts against the infection. The former bureaucrat had tweeted “after CM Yogi’s Team 11 meeting, did the chief secretary scold some of the DMs who conducted more corona tests to ask ”why working in so much speed, do you want to get some prize that you are shouting corona corona” @ ChiefSecyUP please clarify? Is no test = no corona Uttar Pradesh”s strategy?” However, soon after FIR was lodged, Singh again tweeted that an “unconfirmed news” is coming from the media that the government has filed a case against him.
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Former IAS questions Corona strategy: UP police lodges FIR
By IndianMandarins - 2020-06-13 11:16:00
UP Police registered a case against a former IAS officer after he questioned the state government’s coronavirus strategy on his Twitter account. The FIR lodged against Surya Pratap Singh (IAS:1982) who retired in 2015, says his tweet has wrong facts and misinformation and has led to an atmosphere of fear among the public at large.
The case has been registered on the complaint of the in-charge of secretariat chowki, Subhash Singh, on June 11 at the Hazratganj Kotwali for giving false information about government efforts against the infection.
The former bureaucrat had tweeted “after CM Yogi’s Team 11 meeting, did the chief secretary scold some of the DMs who conducted more corona tests to ask ”why working in so much speed, do you want to get some prize that you are shouting corona corona” @ ChiefSecyUP please clarify? Is no test = no corona Uttar Pradesh”s strategy?”
However, soon after FIR was lodged, Singh again tweeted that an “unconfirmed news” is coming from the media that the government has filed a case against him.
