SIT probe against IAS officer for preaching about religion
The Hindu
U.P. orders investigation after video was widely shared on social media
The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday ordered a probe by a Special Investigation Team against a senior bureaucrat after a video of him allegedly preaching about a religion to a group of dozen-odd persons in a room surfaced on social media.
A 1985 batch IAS officer, Mohammad Iftikharuddin is currently posted in Lucknow as the chairman of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation. The video is allegedly said to be from the period he was posted in Kanpur and was reportedly shot in the official residence of the Commissioner, a post he had occupied then. From 2012 to 2018, the officer was posted in Kanpur in various capacities.
The Kanpur police had initially said the ADCP East Kanpur would probe the matter and find out if the video was authentic and “if any crime was committed.”
With the clock ticking down to the Lok Sabha election counting day on Tuesday, opposing fronts are perceptibly edgy and poised to continue the rancorous skirmishing that marked the campaign season in Kerala. The United Democratic Front, led by the Congress, is seemingly basking in the “interim victory” granted by various exit polls. The UDF discerns that its poll strategy of turning the polls foremostly into a damning referendum on the Left Democratic Front government’s perceived failures rather than BJP’s “divisive politics” at the national level stood a fighting chance of paying off.