UP cop transferred after his wife and child post viral selfie with bundles of cash

Selfies have become a common pastime for many these days, but they can often get you into trouble. Yes, you read that right. A police officer posted as station head in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao was transferred immediately after a selfie of his wife and children with a huge amount of cash surfaced on social media.

According to reports, a selfie with a police official's wife and two children sitting on a bed and posing with several wads of Rs 500 notes worth a total of Rs 14 crore led the authorities to take action against him.

The officer, identified as Ramesh Chandra Sahani, was sent to police lines and an inquiry was ordered against him by Superintendent of Police Siddharth Shankar Meena.

Sahani, defending, said the photo was taken in November 2021 after he raised money from the sale of his family property.

Last year, a deputy superintendent of police rank was demoted to sub-inspector due to allegations of corruption in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district.

According to a tweet by the UP Home Department, DSP Vidya Kishore Mishra has been demoted with immediate effect after he was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe from another police officer who was accused of gang-rape.

In 2020, two police officers were suspended after a video of them taking a bribe from an elderly person surfaced on social media.

The accused officers, identified as Head Constable Jagesh Kumar and Constable Shiv Kumar, were posted at Sitapur Machhreta police station. Two police officers allegedly accepted a bribe on the premises of the police station.

In early 2018, a police official in UP's Bulandshahr district was suspended after his WhatsApp chat with an unknown person about how other police officers were accepting bribes for transfers went viral on social media.