New Delhi, July 30 -- In a rare act of accountability, IAS officer Rinku Singh Rahi, newly appointed as the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Puwaiyan tehsil in Uttar Pradesh, did sit-ups in public on his very first day in office, admitting his failure in ensuring cleanliness at the government premises.

According to news agency PTI, the incident took place on Tuesday during Mr Rahi's inspection of the tehsil office. Disturbed by the sight of littered surroundings and people urinating in the open, the officer had initially made the offenders do sit-ups as a form of public correction.

However, a group of protesting lawyers, already on strike, highlighted the broader issue of poor sanitation at the government facility. They pointed to fil...