KOLKATA: A 1998-batch IPS officer recognized to be a troubleshooter changed Vineet Goyal as Kolkata Police commissioner Tuesday night, about 16 hours after CM Mamata Banerjee held talks with junior medical doctors spearheading the agitation over the RG Kar hospital rape-murder and acceded to their demand to take away 4 high officers.
Whereas Manoj Kumar Verma transitioned from ADG (legislation and order) to metropolis police chief, the state govt picked Dipak Sarkar of the Siliguru police commissionerate to take over from DCP (North) Abhishek Gupta, whom the rape-murder sufferer’s father accused of providing cash.
The clamour for Goyal’s elimination was over his dealing with of the rape-murder case. The protesting medical doctors accused him of tampering with proof on the crime scene and mismanaging the state of affairs that allowed a mob to storm the hospital early on Aug 15. In different adjustments, Aniruddha Neogi was made director of medical schooling and Swapan Saren director of well being providers, changing Kaustav Nayek and Debashis Halder, respectively.
Halder had been appointed director of well being providers days earlier than the rape-murder on the RG Kar campus. He’s accused of being near the notorious “north Bengal foyer” within the well being division, comprising these whose alma mater is North Bengal Medical Faculty in Siliguri. Nayek’s appointment had additionally been questioned, with medical doctors’ organisations alleging that he was the least skilled amongst these in rivalry for the publish.
Verma, the brand new metropolis police chief, has been the go-to officer for each the erstwhile Left Entrance administration and the next Trinamool Congress govts in occasions of legislation and order crises. He was made SP of undivided Midnapore in 2009, when the then Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee govt confronted the worst of Maoist insurgency. He performed a key position in curbing Maoists in Jangalmahal. After Trinamool toppled the Left in 2011, Verma was stored on “obligatory ready” for nearly two years.
However going through unrest within the Darjeeling Hills throughout the Gorkhaland motion of 2017, Mamata made him Darjeeling IG. Throughout a conflict with Bimal Gurung’s followers at Sipchu in Darjeeling, Verma continued to deal with legislation and order with a damaged jaw, happening to obtain the police medal on Independence Day that yr. He was additionally made Barrackpore police commissioner following violence in Bhatpara and Kankinara after the 2019 LS elections. He acquired the CM’s police medal that yr.
Whereas Manoj Kumar Verma transitioned from ADG (legislation and order) to metropolis police chief, the state govt picked Dipak Sarkar of the Siliguru police commissionerate to take over from DCP (North) Abhishek Gupta, whom the rape-murder sufferer’s father accused of providing cash.
The clamour for Goyal’s elimination was over his dealing with of the rape-murder case. The protesting medical doctors accused him of tampering with proof on the crime scene and mismanaging the state of affairs that allowed a mob to storm the hospital early on Aug 15. In different adjustments, Aniruddha Neogi was made director of medical schooling and Swapan Saren director of well being providers, changing Kaustav Nayek and Debashis Halder, respectively.
Halder had been appointed director of well being providers days earlier than the rape-murder on the RG Kar campus. He’s accused of being near the notorious “north Bengal foyer” within the well being division, comprising these whose alma mater is North Bengal Medical Faculty in Siliguri. Nayek’s appointment had additionally been questioned, with medical doctors’ organisations alleging that he was the least skilled amongst these in rivalry for the publish.
Verma, the brand new metropolis police chief, has been the go-to officer for each the erstwhile Left Entrance administration and the next Trinamool Congress govts in occasions of legislation and order crises. He was made SP of undivided Midnapore in 2009, when the then Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee govt confronted the worst of Maoist insurgency. He performed a key position in curbing Maoists in Jangalmahal. After Trinamool toppled the Left in 2011, Verma was stored on “obligatory ready” for nearly two years.
However going through unrest within the Darjeeling Hills throughout the Gorkhaland motion of 2017, Mamata made him Darjeeling IG. Throughout a conflict with Bimal Gurung’s followers at Sipchu in Darjeeling, Verma continued to deal with legislation and order with a damaged jaw, happening to obtain the police medal on Independence Day that yr. He was additionally made Barrackpore police commissioner following violence in Bhatpara and Kankinara after the 2019 LS elections. He acquired the CM’s police medal that yr.
