Adityanath gets nod to recruit 1.5 lakh cops

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday approved the Yogi Adityanath government’s roadmap to fill over 1.5 lakh vacant posts in police department of Uttar Pradesh in four years, saying it would help improve law and order situation. The Uttar Pradesh Government told a Bench headed by the Chief Justice of India that it planned to recruit about 33,000 constables and sub-inspectors every year, to fill the entire vacancy by September 2021. tns