<p>A senior police officer in Uttar Pradesh was transferred after a cabinet minister was booked in a dacoity and arson case.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Sambhal Superintendent of Police Piyush Srivastava was transferred late Friday, apparently for his role in booking Fisheries Minister Iqbal Mehmood in the case.<br /><br />Masood was accused by lawyer Nutan Vijay of threatening him and barging into his house with 15 accomplices and looting valuables.<br /><br />Police Friday, without initiating a probe into the dacoity and arson case, gave a clean chit to the minister.<br /><br />While the home department refused to comment on the transfer, insiders said the officer earned the government's ire after the case was slapped on the minister.<br /><br />"Officers should not jump the gun and instead take a line in sync with the law," a Samajwadi party leader said, supporting the transfer.<br /><br />Srivastava has not been given a fresh posting and instead attached to the office of the director general of police in Lucknow.<br /><br />The state government, surprisingly, appointed Rakesh Singh, who was recently suspended as Firozabad police superintendent, as the new Sambhal police chief.</p>
<p>A senior police officer in Uttar Pradesh was transferred after a cabinet minister was booked in a dacoity and arson case.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Sambhal Superintendent of Police Piyush Srivastava was transferred late Friday, apparently for his role in booking Fisheries Minister Iqbal Mehmood in the case.<br /><br />Masood was accused by lawyer Nutan Vijay of threatening him and barging into his house with 15 accomplices and looting valuables.<br /><br />Police Friday, without initiating a probe into the dacoity and arson case, gave a clean chit to the minister.<br /><br />While the home department refused to comment on the transfer, insiders said the officer earned the government's ire after the case was slapped on the minister.<br /><br />"Officers should not jump the gun and instead take a line in sync with the law," a Samajwadi party leader said, supporting the transfer.<br /><br />Srivastava has not been given a fresh posting and instead attached to the office of the director general of police in Lucknow.<br /><br />The state government, surprisingly, appointed Rakesh Singh, who was recently suspended as Firozabad police superintendent, as the new Sambhal police chief.</p>