UP Cop Accused Of Stalking Woman Arrested After Outrage Over 'Clean Chit' | Read

Four days after a giving a 'clean chit' to a policeman in eastern UP's Basti district - he was accused of stalking a woman, filing false cases against her and her family, and almost driving them to suicide - local police have arrested him, and said that they will now prosecute him. "Based on evidence collected so far, we have arrested Sub Inspector Deepak Singh and we are sending him to jail. This is also being done based on preliminary findings of a high-level committee set up to look into the matter," Ashish Shrivastava, the newly-appointed police chief of Basti, said in a video statement posted on Twitter.