TNN | Jul 6, 2013 LUCKNOW : The strike of the passport office employees in UP was called off after a few hours on Friday following assurance from the police that it would not initiate abrupt action against the passport employees the way it did in Kanpur on Thursday.
On Thursday, the crime branch of the Kanpur police unearthed a massive fake passport racket following a raid at the Passport Office in Swaroop Nagar.
Sixteen persons, including passport department employees, were arrested. It was alleged that the passport officers who were arrested in Kanpur were manhandled by the police.
To protest against the police action, passport employees in the state threatened to go on an indefinite strike on Friday, thus affecting the work at four PSKs in Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi and Gorakhpur. "We feel threatened to work like this," said passport officer in Lucknow, Ramkirpal.Since more than 2,000 appointments are given by the PSKs in UP daily, the strike affected quite a huge number of applicants on Friday.
However, the strike was called off in the evening. "We have decided to postpone it since the senior police officers have assured that such action will not be taken against passport employees in future," said secretary of the passport employees' association in Lucknow, Sudhir Tiwari.
On Thursday, the crime branch of the Kanpur police unearthed a massive fake passport racket following a raid at the Passport Office in Swaroop Nagar.
Sixteen persons, including passport department employees, were arrested. It was alleged that the passport officers who were arrested in Kanpur were manhandled by the police.
To protest against the police action, passport employees in the state threatened to go on an indefinite strike on Friday, thus affecting the work at four PSKs in Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi and Gorakhpur. "We feel threatened to work like this," said passport officer in Lucknow, Ramkirpal.Since more than 2,000 appointments are given by the PSKs in UP daily, the strike affected quite a huge number of applicants on Friday.
However, the strike was called off in the evening. "We have decided to postpone it since the senior police officers have assured that such action will not be taken against passport employees in future," said secretary of the passport employees' association in Lucknow, Sudhir Tiwari.
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