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Kolkata: Bidhannagar CP Jawed Shamim removed

| | Jun 07, 2016, at 12:36 am
Kolkata, Jun 6 (IBNS): Bidhannagar Police Commissioner Jawed Shamim, whose works during recently concluded Bengal Polls were praised by the Election Commission of India (ECI), has been replaced by the West Bengal Government on Monday.
He has been replaced by IGP (Western Zone) Gyanwant Singh.

After Mamata Banerjee-led government came back to power with 211 seats out of 294, several senior police officials, who did outstanding duties during Assembly Polls, were removed from their posts. Few of them have been sent on compulsory waiting.

Jawed Shamim has been sent to the post of Economic Offences Wing (Kolkata)'s Director.

Besides Jawed Shamim, WB government on Monday transferred Asansol-Durgapur CP Siddh Nath Gupta, Barrackpore CP Niraj Kumar Singh and Siliguri CP Manoj Kumar Verma to the posts of IGP (Organization, WB), IGP (Intelligence Branch- Border) and Special IG & DGP (Traffic, WB) respectively.

North 24 Parganas SP Tanmay Roy Chowdhury, Spl. Addl. CP & Jt. CP (Traffic, Kolkata) Laxmi Narayan Meena and DIG (Malda Range) Chelling Simick Lepcha have been appointed as Barrackpore CP, Asansol-Durgapur CP and Siliguri CP respectively.

DC-ESD of Kolkata Police Bhaskar Mukherjee has been replaced by DC DD (Special) of KP Debasmita Das. Bhaskar Mukherjee becomes the new SP of North 24 Parganas. Debasmita Das has been replaced by DC SB of Bidhannagar Joy Biswas, who was replaced by Jhargram Police District's SP Sukhendu Hira.

Bharati Ghosh, who was removed by the ECI before Assembly Polls, has been given an additional charge of Jhargram Police District's SP, beside her present posting as West Midnapore's SP.

West Bengal Government on Monday issued an order, where 17 IPS official were transferred.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

 

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