Bengal polls
Powers of Bengal SSA Surajit Kar Purakayastha to be kept in abeyance during polls: Officials
Kolkata/IBNS: After the Election Commission of India (ECI) had ordered the removal of West Bengal State Security Advisor (SSA), retired IPS Surajit Kar Purakayastha, Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay on Wednesday night directed to keep the functions and powers of the SSA in abeyance during the assembly election in the state, with an immediate effect, officials said.
Earlier in 2018, Surajit Kar Purakayastha had retired from his services as the state police's Director General (DGP), and he was hand-picked by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the State Security Advisor, a newly created post.
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Meanwhile, the retired IPS officer has already been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam and he has been asked to appear before the investigators on Thursday (Mar 25).
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