Kanpur, Nov. 18 -- A Kanpur police inspector with about 14 years of service, who is under investigation for his links to a land grabbing and extortion racket that allegedly has close ties to jailed lawyer Akhilesh Dubey, was dismissed from service in connection with the suicide of a woman he had picked up along with her daughter over the theft of jewellery over three years ago.

The action against inspector Ashish Kumar Dwivedi, who was already under suspension in connection with the alleged Dubey links, was taken after a departmental inquiry concluded that he illegally detained the domestic worker and her 13-year-old daughter hours before the woman died by suicide at the Asha Jyoti Kendra in Kanpur in April 2022.

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