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 docs spearheading the agitation over the RG Kar hospital rape-murder and acceded to their demand to take away 4 prime 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 docs 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 docs’ organisations alleging that he was the least skilled amongst these in competition for the put up.
Verma, the brand new metropolis police chief, has been the go-to officer for each the erstwhile Left Entrance administration and the following Trinamool Congress govts in instances 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 saved on “obligatory ready” for nearly two years.
However dealing with unrest within the Darjeeling Hills in the course of 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, occurring to obtain the police medal on Independence Day that 12 months. 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 12 months.
