Action: CM Yogi dismisses rape accused police officer from service

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Lucknow, April 11: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has dismissed (earlier suspended) Circle Officer (CO) Navneet Kumar Nayak from service.

Navneet Nayak, deputy superintendent of police, who took over as the CO in July 2019 in Patti circle of Pratapgarh district, on October 12, 2020, a woman from Madhya Pradesh had made serious allegations of physical abuse against him.

Giving a complaint in the concerned police station, it was said that the Deputy SP had physically harassed her on the pretext of marriage and now she is reluctant to marry. When the matter was highlighted, the government suspended the Deputy SP.