Ramnagar Constable’s WhatsApp Resignation Withdrawn After ACP Counselling

Constable Devgan Kumar Chauhan of the 2025 batch, posted at Ramnagar police station in Varanasi, withdrew a resignation he had posted on the station WhatsApp group after counselling by Additional Superintendent of Police (ACP) Vijay Pratap Singh, according to police accounts covered into 10 September 2026. Chauhan has said he wants to continue in service. The resignation note itself was linked to the night of 7 September.

In the WhatsApp message, the constable cited continuous duty — including a long Annapurna temple deployment cited from 09:00 to 21:00 — and personal stress. After completing duty he was asked to escort an injured person to a trauma centre, a task that became part of the same evening’s strain narrative in the accounts that reached this desk. Those details explain the content of the message; they are not framed here as an indictment of temple security deployments or of trauma-escort duties, both of which are routine police work.

ACP Vijay Pratap Singh’s counselling is the procedural hinge. Senior officers often intervene when a young constable’s resignation appears on an internal chat before any formal paper resignation has moved through establishment channels. In this case, police say the resignation was rejected or withdrawn after the talk, and Chauhan’s stated position is that he will stay in the force.

This pack is a police human-resources and station-ops story. It is not an anti-police crusade and not a workload manifesto. A 2025-batch constable posting a resignation on WhatsApp is a personnel event; an ACP counselling him back into service is the management response. Readers get both without converting either into a political brief.

Temple duty bands such as the Annapurna 09:00–21:00 window are long by design during festival and pilgrimage pressure. Trauma escorts after a shift are likewise familiar in urban police work. Recording that those tasks featured in Chauhan’s message is factual context for why a junior constable hit send — not a finding that the duties were unlawful or uniquely punitive.

Internal WhatsApp groups have become informal pressure valves and, sometimes, premature resignation channels. Establishment rules still require paper process; a chat message is not the end of a career unless the department accepts it. Ramnagar’s file closed, for now, with counselling and a withdrawal.

Until any formal service record says otherwise, the locked facts are narrow: Constable Devgan Kumar Chauhan posted a WhatsApp resignation citing continuous duty and personal stress after the 7 September evening sequence; ACP Vijay Pratap Singh counselled him; the resignation was withdrawn; and the constable has said he wishes to continue serving at Ramnagar.
Young batches absorb festival-season and pilgrim-season pressure steeply in a city like Varanasi. Counselling that keeps a constable in uniform after a bad night is quieter than a resignation accepted on chat — and, on this file, that quieter ending is the one police have put on record.