Lucknow, June 5 :     The confrontation between controversial Uttar Pradesh programme implementation minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh, alias Raja Bhaiyya, and IPS officer Jasbir Singh is fast spinning out of control. The state government has, according to reliable sources, decided to recall the services of the police officer, who is on deputation to the CRPF, and start prosecution against him. Jasbir Singh had said in an interview on the television programme, India?s Most Wanted, that the the minister was close to mafia dons Brijesh Singh and Munna Bajrangi. The officer was the superintendent of police in Pratapgarh, Raja Bhaiyya?s home district. Raja Bhaiyya in turn has said the IPS officer had been indicted by the CBI and the Jabalpur High Court for kidnappings eight boys for ransom. Raja Bhaiyya?s family enjoys a considerable reputation in the district. His father, Udai Singh Baiti, was known to hold a private court where he dispensed ?quick and efficient? justice. Baiti was arrested in 1993 by the then superintendent of police. The locals reacted by shutting down shops and markets. Raja Bhaiyya denies ever having gone against the law. ?I look after my people. That is all. I have nothing to do with crime and criminals,? he said. A former SP of Pratapgarh, now posted in Lucknow, does not agree. ?There was a time when if Raja Bhaiyya?s jeep ran over a child, the parents would be too scared to go to a police station and lodge an FIR. Instead, they would ask him to forgive them for not being careful with the child,? he said. Jasbir Singh, posted in Pratapgarh in late 1996, had taken Raja Bhaiyya head-on. His colleagues in the IPS say: ?He had a strange kind of enmity with him which went beyond the call of duty.? According to reliable sources, soon after Jasbir Singh was posted as police chief of Pratapgarh, he saw Raja Bhaiyya?s convoy in a remote village. The police officer stopped his vehicle, took Raja Bhaiyya aside and told him he would be given a severe thrashing if the latter did not recognise Singh?s superiority. Jasbir Singh went on to file several cases against the minister. He registered nine cases in 10 days. Then came the infamous incident, when Jasbir Singh was accused of kidnapping eight boys in Jabalpur and keeping them hostage in Pratapgarh. Even after the court found Jasbir Singh guilty, the IPS association tried to have him promoted. A resolution was sought to be passed, condemning action against a senior police officer. It is surprising that despite Jasbir Singh?s history, the Uttar Pradesh government chose to send him to the Centre on deputation and is only now contemplate action against him. If the police officer?s allegations against the minister have caused embarrassment, the state government?s inaction against Jasbir Singh has shown it in very poor light.