UP Govt withdraws petition in SC on constables' appt issue

The Supreme Court today allowed the UP Government to withdraw its petition challenging the order of the Allahabad High court directing it to take action after scrutinising irregularities in the appointment of around 18,400 constables in the state in 2005-06.
The previous BSP government of Mayawati had moved the apex court in May 2009 after the High Court had passed an order on a PIL alleging irregularities in the recruitments made during the regime of Mulayam Singh Yadav.
When the appeal was filed against the High Court's March 4, 2009 order, the apex court had admitted it.
However, the Samajwadi Party Government moved an application to withdraw the appeal which was today allowed by a bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam.

The FIR on the issue was filed in June 2007 after a complaint alleging large scale illegality was made.
The BSP government had appointed Committee headed by a bureaucrat Shailja Kant Mishra which had given its report in Sept 2007.
The state cabinet had then recommended the CBI probe. However, CBI had refused to take up the case.
After the High court had asked the UP government to deal each case after proper scrutiny, it filed the petition in the apex court saying it was difficult to comply with the order of scrutinising the list.