LUCKNOW, May 10 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has transferred investigation into cases of corruption, bribery and disproportionate assets involving employees of the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) and affiliated power sector bodies to the state vigilance department. This has effectively ended the corporation's role in handling graft-related inquiries against its own personnel. Officials said shifting probes to an external agency aims to strengthen transparency and institutional accountability in anti-corruption investigations. The decision was formalised through a home department order issued on May 5, a copy of which the Hindustan Times has accessed. Under the revised arrangement, electricity theft and enforcement-related cases will continue to be handled through the existing mechanism of internal vigilance units and electricity theft prevention police stations functioning under the Electricity Act, 2003. However, corruption and disproportionate assets cases involving power sector employees will now be investigated independently by the vigilance department. "The current arrangement for electricity theft and enforcement cases will remain intact, but corruption and disproportionate assets matters concerning power corporation personnel will now be handled by the vigilance department," a senior home department official said. Officials said the order has come into immediate effect and partially supersedes earlier administrative instructions governing vigilance inquiries in the power sector. They said the latest decision was taken after "due consideration" to create a clearer separation between departmental enforcement functions and anti-corruption investigations....