Uttar Pradesh is a gift that keeps on giving. The good, the bad, and the bizarre - the state has its own way of making headlines. In another inexplicable instance, the Kanpur postal department released Rs 5 stamps with the images of gangsters Chhota Rajan and Munna Bajrangi.
The gaffe has led to postmaster general suspending one of the officials.
Postmaster General, Vinod Kumar Verma, has stressed that the mistake was down to a clerical error. He told reporters that an internal investigation was going on to find out how the mistake occurred and why a clerk failed to identify the gangsters.
The department immediately swung into action and suspended the officer in charge of the philately section of the main post office in the district, for negligence. The post office¡¯s chief postmaster, Himanshu Kumar Mishra, identified the official as Rajnish Kumar. Mishra said strict action would be taken against officials if found guilty of such grave error.?
¡°We have also issued show-cause notices to some other employees in this regard¡efforts are on to zero in on the person who got the photographs of the criminals printed under the ¡®My stamp¡¯ scheme,¡± the postmaster general was quoted as saying by PTI.??
The printing of criminals¡¯ pictures on postage stamps reportedly has been possible under the ¡®My Stamp¡¯ scheme, which allows one to get personalised sheets of postage stamps of India Post.
Rajan is currently in a Mumbai prison, and Bajrangi was murdered in UP's Baghpat prison in 2018.
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