India, July 5 -- A WhatsApp status with "objectionable" remarks against Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has led to action against six cops in Uttar Pradesh.

The six constables, including one from Firozabad who posted the content originally while the others shared it, have been suspended.

The action came within 24 hours of a complaint from the state's main opposition party.

The comments had gone viral on Facebook and WhatsApp, and possibly on other social networks, after which party officials led by district unit chief Shivraj Singh Yadav met the Firozabad district police chief, Senior Superintendent of Police Saurabh Dixit. He ordered an investigation by the respective area incharge, HT's Hindi daily Hindustan reported.

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