DSP Vidya Kishore Mishra has been demoted to the post of sub-inspector by the UP government after a video of him accepting ₹ 5 lakh bribe went viral. He was trying to hinder in a case of gang rape, wherein inspector Vinod Singh Yadav had been booked as one of the accused in 2021. The case was found upon investigation by SIT officials of Women cell in Moradabad, putting sections 364 (abduction), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 120 (criminal conspiracy). The demotion of Mishra was announced on twitter on Tuesday.
