Day after Mamata flags police ‘role’ in coal & sand smuggling, S-I suspended

Mondal is 1 among respective officers facing departmental inquiries by the state’s constabulary and administrative departments. During their suspension period, an serviceman volition person fractional of the basal salary.

He was earlier transferred to different constabulary presumption successful the territory but earlier helium could articulation his caller posting, helium was suspended connected the bid of Asansol Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar Chowdhury. A departmental enquiry has besides been initiated against him.

State BJP president Sukanta Majumdar, however, claimed that the S-I is simply a “scapegoat.”

Meanwhile, the CID has stepped up its crackdown connected soil and ember smuggling, launching operations successful respective parts of the state.

Two section TMC leaders were connected Friday arrested connected charges of robust smuggling, officers said. They were identified arsenic Rintu Panja, who is the TMC’s vice president, (Durgapur, artifact fig 3) and Arvind Nandy, a erstwhile councilor .

On Thursday, the CM said she would reshuffle the CID (Criminal Investigation Department) of the authorities police. She had specifically pointed astatine definite sections of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the grassroots constabulary force, suggesting their complicity successful amerciable businesses. She said strict enactment would beryllium taken against immoderate idiosyncratic progressive successful specified activities.

After chairing a gathering of apical officials of her authorities connected Thursday, the CM had said that stern enactment should beryllium taken against those progressive successful corrupt practices “irrespective of their governmental colour”.

“Some lower-level officers, who bash not similar this government, including immoderate constabulary officers, are taking wealth and allowing theft successful sand, coal, cement and stones… Why is the onshore section sitting idle? Why are they quiet? I had already asked them to telephone for tenders for soil and chromatic mining. In coal, the CISF is taking wealth and allowing theft,” the main curate said astatine a property league astatine Nabanna, the authorities secretariat.

“If determination is simply a governmental idiosyncratic involved, drawback him by his collar. The instrumentality indispensable beryllium applied to each without discrimination. Take enactment according to the law. I volition not let each this. I volition not prevention anyone progressive successful corruption,” Banerjee asserted.

“I volition wholly reshuffle the CID, fortify the STF (Special Task Force) and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB),” she added.

Her allegations successful a property league came aft elder Trinamool Congress leaders specified arsenic MP Sougato Roy and Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor Firhad Hakim also  questioned the constabulary functioning successful the aftermath of an alleged execution effort connected TMC councillor Sushanta Ghosh.

The CM connected Thursday besides said that if immoderate TMC person is progressive successful immoderate corruption,  they should beryllium fixed “appropriate punishment”.

Senior Congress person Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, meanwhile, called the developments successful the aftermath of the CM’s remarks an “eyewash.” “It is conscionable an eyewash to fool people,” claimed Chowdhury.