A yr after a number of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers have been despatched to Manipur by completely different states/Union Territories to go their Particular Investigation Groups (SITs) to research the violence instances, three states—Punjab, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh—have known as again their officers and despatched their replacements, reviews The Indian Specific.
The Supreme Court docket had appointed former deputy nationwide safety adviser (NSA) and former Mumbai Police commissioner Dattatray Padsalgikar to be the “general monitor” of a CBI probe into the situations of sexual violence in Manipur on August three final yr. Following the Supreme Court docket’s instructions, the Union Ministry of House Affairs directed all of the states/UTs to appoint their officers for the SITs.
In accordance with IE sources, a dialogue to ship them again to their cadre began when among the IPS officers who got here on superintendent of police (SP) rank acquired promoted to deputy inspector common (DIG) in January and requested their police chiefs to name them again. Padsalgikar reportedly steered a rotation coverage for all SIT officers because of the difficult regulation and order state of affairs in Manipur.
In an order issued on September 6 on behalf of the Manipur DGP, Jayanta Singh, IG (Admin), Manipur Police, mentioned that Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS officers Alok Kumar and Rajeev Kumar Mishra have been relieved from their duties as their replacements Ramsharan Prajapati and Sushil Ranjan reported to the workplace.
Equally, Haryana recalled Surinder Pal Singh, a 2010-batch IPS officer, and changed him with Rajender Kumar Meena, a 2011-batch IPS officer. Punjab additionally known as again Shubham Aggarwal, a 2018-batch officer, and changed him with Aditya S. Battle, a 2020-batch IPS officer.
Moreover, Madhya Pradesh known as again Ashutosh Bagri, an IPS officer of 2015 batch, from the CBI headquarters in Delhi and despatched Vaishnav Sharma, a 2012-batch IPS officer, in his place.
The adjustments intention to handle the challenges confronted by SIT officers in Manipur, the place they’re busy with regulation and order duties. The rotation coverage might assist guarantee a smoother investigation into the violence instances.
