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Kolkata CP Rajeev Kumar to face departmental action for attending Mamata's 'political' dharna

Kolkata CP Rajeev Kumar to face departmental action for attending Mamata's 'political' dharna

| @indiablooms | 05 Feb 2019, 12:35 pm

Kolkata, Feb 5 (IBNS): The Union Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday asked the West Bengal government to start a departmental probe and take action against Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar as the ministry found that the senior IPS officer violated Indian Administrative Service rule and discipline by attending a political event on duty last Sunday, officials said. 

Sources in the Union Home Ministry said that the move was made after the Additional Director General (ADG) of Police ranked officer was seen beside West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her sit-in-demonstration (dharna) camp in Kolkata's downtown Esplanade area on Sunday (Feb 3).

Since Sunday night, Mamata Banerjee has been holding an 'indefinite' dharna after a team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) went to Rajeev Kumar's bungalow in south Kolkata to quiz him in connection with chit fund probe and Kumar along with several other police and administrative officials of the state were seen attending TMC's supremo's dharna.

However, no reaction from the state government officials regarding the Union Home Ministry's letter asking departmental probe and action against Rajeev Kumar has been received so far.

 

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

 

 

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