A group of 74 former bureaucrats and police officers have written an open letter alleging a "complete breakdown of governance" and "blatant violation of rule of law" in Uttar Pradesh. The letter has been endorsed by over 200 eminent citizens. In the four-page letter, the IAS, IPS, IFS officials alleged arbitrary detentions and torture of and police attacks on peaceful protesters, demanded an end to extra-judicial killings, targeting of Muslim men with the law against "love jihad", alleged misuse of the National Security Act in the name of cow slaughter and against dissenters.
