Lucknow, Oct. 14 -- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has taken major action in connection with the alleged recruitment scam in the Animal Husbandry Department in Uttar Pradesh, arresting former IAS officer and the then Principal Secretary Yogesh Kumar.
The EOW team arrested him from Gomti Nagar in Lucknow on Wednesday morning. Following this action, the 2014 recruitment of livestock extension officers has once again come into the spotlight.
The case relates to recruitments conducted in the Animal Husbandry Department during the tenure of the then Samajwadi Party government. In 2014, a recruitment process was conducted for 1,198 posts of livestock extension officers in 17 divisions of the state.
It is noteworthy that allegations of irregu...