September 19, 2024

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Mamata Banerjee promotes one IPS officer posted on central deputation

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Notwithstanding central authorities’s directive of placing 3 IPS officers on Central deputation following the mob assault on the motorcade of the BJP’s nationwide president JP Nadda earlier this month, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool authorities, which has been at odds with the Centre, arbitrarily promoted considered one of them and transferred one other on Monday. 
Instead of releasing the three IPS officers on Central deputation, Mamata Banerjee arbitrarily promotes one and transfers one other
According to reviews, Rajeev Mishra, the 1996 batch IPS officer who was IG South Bengal however has now been promoted as ADG South Bengal. Rajeev Mishra together with Bholanath Pandey and Praveen Kumar Tripathi had been in-charge of JP Nadda’s safety when his convoy got here beneath assault on December 10 whereas he was en path to Diamond Harbour for a staff assembly.
Bholanath Pandey who was the Diamond Harbour SP has now been transferred because the SP, Home Guard. The place of the third IPS officer, Praveen Kumar Tripathi, DIG (Presidency Range), who was additionally in-charge of Nadda’s safety, nevertheless, remained the identical.
Total of 33 officers had been both transferred or promoted by the state authorities on Monday and IPS officers Rajeev Mishra and Bholanath Pandey had been amongst them. The Mamata authorities has known as this a routine process.
For the unversed, Rajeev Mishra is identical IPS officer who had shot to fame after movies surfaced of him touching Mamata Banerjee’s ft in 2019. He was in uniform. The clip had gone viral receiving flak from varied quarters. Slamming the Mamata Banerjee govt, BJP chief Kailash Vijayvargiya tweeted the video with a remark in Hindi: “What kind of democracy is this?”
MHA summons three IPS officers of Bengal following the assault on JP Nadda’s convoy 
The MHA on December 12 (Saturday) summoned three IPS officers of Bengal, who had been accountable for offering safety to BJP nationwide head J P Nadda, to serve in central deputation following the assault on his convoy on Thursday which left a number of BJP leaders together with Kailash Vijayvargiya injured within the course of. The IPS officers sought had been Rajeev Mishra (Additional Director General, South Bengal), Praveen Tripathi (Deputy Inspector General, Presidency Range) and Bholanath Pandey (SP, Diamond Harbour).
Mamata Banerjee refuses to launch the officers
However, the West Bengal state authorities had blatantly refused to offer a No Objection Certificate (NOC) and launch them. This had led to an enormous tug of warfare between MHA and Mamata Banerjee. Hitting out on the Modi authorities, Mamata had mentioned that her authorities wouldn’t bend earlier than “expansionist” and “undemocratic” forces.
The MHA in its second directive on December 16 had transferred Mishra to ITBP, Pandey to Bureau of Police Research and Tripathi to SSB DIG. Mamata had slammed the transfer and the intent to make use of powers “covered under emergency laws”.