LUCKNOW, April 11 -- : In a significant move to make Uttar Pradesh Police's digital surveillance system more accountable and legally balanced, DGP Rajeev Krishna has ordered immediate closure of monitoring on the Yaksh app of persons who were wrongly implicated, acquitted by courts, or are deceased. The directive is aimed at ensuring that innocent persons are not subjected to continued police scrutiny or digital profiling, officials said.

According to the DGP, the backend of the Yaksh app currently contains records of nearly 12 lakh criminals, making it one of the largest digital offender repositories maintained by the UP Police. Police stations across the state are also generating criminal IDs for persons arrested under 21 categories of...