Sarwan Ram Darapuri an

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social activist, politician and ex-

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. He served as the third-highest-ranking police officer in

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Early life

Darapuri was born on 16 December 1943 at

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village in Jalandhar District of Punjab. His father's name is Naranjan Ram. Darapuri is an

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and also converted into

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on 14 October 1995. He completed his Bachelor of Sciences from the Ramgharia College, Phagwara (Punjab) in 1964. He worked as a science lecturer in Punjab, District Organiser of National Savings Organisation (GOI), Assistant in Ministry of Finance (GOI), New Delhi and the Customs Appraiser in Customs Department (GOI) at Bombay.

Civil service

He is an

Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Raj. Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS ...

s officer from 1972 batch of Uttar Pradesh. He became Inspector General of Police in Uttar Pradesh. Darapuri was last posted at Armed Training Centre, Sitapur and retired on 31 December 2003.

Politics

He was State Coordinator of Lok Rajniti Manch of U.P and the Member of Coordination Committee for Jan Sangharsh Morcha. He is National Secretary and the Spokesman of All India People's Front (Radical). He contested in 2009 Indian General elections of Lok Sabha from

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constituency and in 2014 Indian general elections he contested from the

Robertsganj Robertsganj ( hi, script=Latn, राॅबर्ट्सगंज, rŏbartsganj) also known as Sonbhadra City ( hi, script=Latn, sōnbhadra nagar) is a city and a municipal board in Sonbhadra district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Robe ...

constituency but lost at both times. He criticised and questioned the role of the police after inspector Subodh Singh was killed in the 2019 Bulandshahr violence and 2018 Kasganj violence.

Social service

Darapuri is Vice President of

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in U.P, expert advisor for

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, RTI Campaign committee member of U.P and the convener of Dalit Mukti Morcha. Also a convener of the

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(Lucknow branch) and President of Society for Promoting Buddhist Knowledge. Darapuri was arrested in 2017 for protesting against Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh. In 2019 he was again arrested in anti CAA protests at Uttar Pradesh and kept in house arrest and released after few days.

References

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