Case filed against outsourced employees of helpline UP 112 after protests demanding salary hike
In Lucknow, over 200 female contractual employees of the UP 112 emergency helpline have been booked for rioting. The employees have been staging a protest for job security and a salary increase in the state capital.
On Wednesday, the Lucknow Police booked five identified and 200 unidentified female contractual workers from UP 112 for their involvement in a sit-in protest that had been ongoing since Monday.
Those named in the FIR include Harishta Srivastava, Pooja Singh, Reena Sharma, and Shashi while police are trying to identify the other unidentified mentioned in the FIR
These women are demanding job security and a wage hike outside the UP 112 headquarters.
An FIR has been filed by Sub-Inspector Dhirendra Pratap Singh, who was on patrol duty with a constable when he encountered the protest.
The demonstrators had allegedly taken to the streets, blocking passage and raising anti-government slogans.
Singh immediately reported the situation to the control room, leading to the deployment of lady constables and women officers in an attempt to persuade the protesters to clear the main road.
Despite these efforts, the protesters remained resolute.
As a result, they were relocated to a designated protest site at Ambedkar Udyan the following day.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, South Zone, Shashank Singh, stated that the protesters were blocking a major thoroughfare and have been charged under IPC sections 147 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 188 (assembly of more than five), 283 (obstruction of public passage), and 341 (wrongful restraint).
The Additional Deputy General (ADG) of UP-112, Ashok Singh, intervened by assuring the protesters that their jobs would not be jeopardized.
Nevertheless, the women persisted in their protest.
Meanwhile, the state government has removed Ashok Singh.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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Doing the job right way with right attitude is the job security. What else they want ? Unless the sword of Damocles is hanging, no one would do any work sincerely.
The strike is unjustified. Striking employees or workers to be punished. Protests or strikes only when some injustice is done, else, they have no right to ask anything more, so long the terms of employment or hiring is are complied.