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The Union Home Ministry has issued Central deputation orders for the three West Bengal IPS officers.
The IPS officers have been charged with negligence during the attack on BJP chief JP Nadda s convoy in Kolkata.
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday (December 17, 2020) has issued Central deputation orders for the three West Bengal IPS officers who were on duty when BJP chief JP Nadda s convoy was attacked.
The three police officers of
West Bengal have been issued Central postings on charges of negligence. The Ministry of Home Affairs took action against the trio under IPS Cadre Rule 6 (1).
As per the latest decision, Bholanath Pandey has been posted as SP in Bureau of Police Research and Development for four years, Praveen Tripathi sent to the post of DIG in Sashastra Seema Bal for five years and Rajeev Mishra will be posted as IG in Indo-Tibetan Border Police for five years.
NEW DELHI: The home ministry on Thursday wrote to the West Bengal chief secretary reaffirming its decision to call three IPS officers belonging to the state cadre, on central deputation, while also finalising their new postings against existing vacancies in Central police organisations. The move led chief minister Mamata Banerjee to step in and vent her ire on social media against the Centre s deliberate attempt to encroach upon state’s jurisdiction and demoralize the serving officers in West Bengal .
In a letter addressed to the chief secretary and copied to the DGP, the home ministry said it had examined the state government s reply refusing to spare the three officers Rajeev Mishra (ADG, South Bengal); Bhola Nath Pandey (SP, Diamond Harbour) and Praveen Kumar Tripathi (DIG, Presidency Range) despite the Centre s decision to call them on Central deputation. Citing Rule 6(1) of IPS Cadre Rules, which relates to deputation of cadre officers and clearly states that the Centre
Nadda convoy attack: Mamata Banerjee flags ‘encroachment by Centre’ in deputation row
Training her guns at the Centre, Mamata Banerjee dubbed the move as a deliberate attempt to encroach on matters pertaining to the state’s jurisdiction. Updated: December 17, 2020 6:53:32 pm
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. (File)
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been silent so far on the summoning of three IPS officers, responsible for providing security cover to BJP national president JP Nadda’s convoy in Kolkata, by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), spoke up on the issue on Thursday.
The officers, who were summoned to New Delhi and issued central deputation orders, stayed put after the Bengal government said it won’t be able to release them for new postings.
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The Centre Thursday shot off a fresh letter to the West Bengal government to immediately relieve its three IPS officers for central deputation, provoking a combative Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to brand the move as unconstitutional and unacceptable . A defiant Banerjee also declared she will not allow the brazen attempt to control the state machinery by proxy , in escalation of tension between the state and the Centre. Five days after the West Bengal government said it will not relieve the three IPS officers, the Centre sent a fresh missive on Thursday, asking the state to immediately release them so they could take up their new assignments.