During a surprise early-morning inspection, Meerut SSP Avinash Pandey quietly took away the crime register from the women’s police station after finding it virtually unmanned.
And the only police personnel present there were asleep.




Later that evening, Pandey asked the station in charge to produce the crime register, but the staff could not find it and launched a search. CCTV footage was then checked, only to reveal that the “culprit” behind the missing register was the SSP himself.
After the lapse came to light, the SSP warned the SHO and transferred 19 women police personnel who had been posted at the mahila thana for a long period to far-off police stations.