Express News Service
PATNA: Facing criticism from opposition events, Bihar director basic of police (DGP) Sanjeev Kumar Singhal on Friday inspected Gandhi Maidan police station in Patna and ordered the suspension of station home officer (SHO) Ranjeet Vats on the fees of not sustaining the police station’s diary.
The motion adopted the advice of inspector basic of police, central vary, Rakesh Kumar Rathi, who was current on the police station throughout inspection by the state police chief. Patna senior superintendent of police (SSP) Manavjeet Singh Dhillon was additionally there.
According to police handbook, diary on the police station must be up to date an hourly foundation by the SHO involved.
However, throughout inspection by the DGP, the station diary was not discovered up-to-date, a laxity on the a part of the SHO, thus inviting disciplinary motion towards him.
This is for the primary time that Singhal, a 1988 batch IPS officer, moved out of the police headquarters to examine any police station within the state ever since he assumed cost as DGP of Bihar on December 20, 2020. He had outdated Gupteshwar Pandey, who took voluntary retirement three months earlier than to affix politics.
Though Singhal was schedule to retire on August 31, 2021, his service was prolonged for 2 years from the appointment as DGP. His tenure will come to an finish on December 19, 2022.
On Friday, chief of opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav flayed the state authorities for its failure to comprise crime. Murder, loot, rape, extortion and kidnapping have change into a routine affair within the state, he alleged and sought chief minister’s intervention.
The homicide of a Janata Dal United (JDU) functionary in Danapur close to Patna sparked off violent protest by his relations and native residents. A spate of murders within the state capital, together with members of enterprise neighborhood, has unnerved the highest brass of the state police.
Earlier, the state police headquarters had issued directives to all vary IGs and DIGs to conduct inspections of the police stations below their jurisdiction.
However, incidents of crime continued unabated within the state.
