Kolkata: The Election
Commission (EC) of India has removed the Kolkata Police Commissioner, Rajeev
Kumar, from his post in the middle of the West Bengal elections and even named
his replacement.
Additional
chief electoral officer Dibyendu Sarkar said: “Following the direction of the
EC, Kumar has been removed and (Somen) Mitra has been named as his replacement.
The order has to be executed by Tuesday.”
His removal comes after
Opposition parties, BJP, Congress and Left, complained to the Election
Commission against him. They claimed he was not impartial about handling their
complaints against ruling Trinamool.
While
campaigning in city for the polls, BJP president Amit Shah on March 29 alleged
that Kumar “had a direct role in the failed sting”, and claimed it was done at
the behest of Chief Minister and Trinamool chairperson Mamata Banerjee. The
BJP had lodged a complaint with the EC after an alleged failed sting operation
against the party’s national secretary and former state unit president Rahul
Sinha last month. Two Kolkata Police personnel had allegedly tried to bribe
Sinha in return for Centre’s help to smuggle out cows to Bangladesh. Sinha had
alleged that it was a conspiracy by the ruling Trinamool Congress to trap BJP
leaders in the sting operation. “He had engineered the plot to frame me. He has
been rightly served,” Sinha said on Tuesday.
A 1989 IPS officer,
Rajeev Kumar could be the shortest service Commissioner of Kolkata Police. He
had taken over the post on January 29.
Somen Mitra, additional
director general of the Criminal Investigation Department, will take over as
Kolkata Police Commissioner tomorrow.
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