Murder of SP leader: IPS officer suspended

A week after a local leader of the ruling Samajwadi Party was shot dead in Barabanki, the Uttar Pradesh government today suspended an IPS officer, who was the then SP of the district, for alleged laxity in duty.

A government spokesman said that the then SP of Barabanki district, Suresh Rao Anand Kulkarni, has been suspended for laxity in duty for not taking proper action on a complaint in the murder case.

The officer has been attached to DGP headquarters.

Arvind, an office bearer of Mulayam Singh Yadav Youth Brigade, was shot dead on January 15 by unidentified persons, police said.