Pressured by wife for 'extra income', UP cop seeks transfer 

Sanjay Pandey, DH News Service, Lucknow, Feb 28 2018, 18:05 IST 
 


According to the reports the cop, who was posted at the district police chief's office, sought his transfer elsewhere as his wife 'pressured' him for some 'extra income' like many of his colleagues. Representational Image

One may have heard of police officials trying to seek postings at lucrative police stations apparently to make more money buck but in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut city a senior cop sought transfer for an altogether different reason.

According to the reports the cop, who was posted at the district police chief's office, sought his transfer elsewhere as his wife ''pressured'' him for some ''extra income'' like many of his colleagues.

''I am an honest man....I am satisfied with what I get as salary...but my wife has been exerting pressure on me to take bribe like my other colleagues...I can not do that,'' the cop, who was a sub-inspector, told the district police chief Manzil Saini.

He requested her to post him to some remote police station, where no one wanted to go and where there was no possibility of making extra money. ''Then it will not be possible for me to go home every day and face her taunts....I will be able to visit home only once or twice in a month,'' he added.

Saini and the other cops were taken aback by the reason advanced by the cop for seeking his transfer.

Reports said that the SSP, appreciating his problems, posted him to some other police station.

It will be interesting to see if his wife now stops pressurising him for extra money.