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Jharkhand acting DGP Anurag Gupta (centre). (Photo: Jharkhand Police/ X)
The Election Commission connected Saturday directed the Jharkhand authorities to instantly region acting Director General of Police Anurag Gupta and manus implicit complaint to the senior-most DGP serviceman disposable successful the cadre, arsenic per EC sources.
The EC took the determination based connected a past of complaints against the serviceman and actions taken by the canvass sheet successful erstwhile elections, they said. During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the serviceman was relieved of the complaint of ADG (Special Branch) aft allegations of bias by the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, arsenic per an EC source. He was past reassigned to the bureau of the Jharkhand Resident Commissioner successful Delhi and asked not to instrumentality to the authorities till the elections were on, the root said.
During the Rajya Sabha elections successful Jharkhand successful 2016, arsenic further DGP, helium faced allegations of misuse of authorization and the EC had formed an enquiry committee, the root said. Based connected the findings, an FIR was registered connected March 29, 2018 and the Jharkhand authorities successful 2021 gave support to analyse nether the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, the EC root said.
The EC asked the authorities authorities to comply with its directions and taxable a study by 7 p.m. connected Saturday. The EC besides asked the authorities to taxable a sheet of elder IPS officers to beryllium considered for the station by 10 americium connected Monday.
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