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PATNA: Going through grievance from opposition events, Bihar director common of police (DGP) Sanjeev Kumar Singhal on Friday inspected Gandhi Maidan police station in Patna and ordered the suspension of station area officer (SHO) Ranjeet Vats at the fees of no longer keeping up the police station’s diary.
The motion adopted the advice of inspector common of police, central vary, Rakesh Kumar Rathi, who was once provide on the police station right through inspection by way of the state police leader. Patna senior superintendent of police (SSP) Manavjeet Singh Dhillon was once additionally there.
Consistent with police guide, diary on the police station needs to be up to date an hourly foundation by way of the SHO involved.
Then again, right through inspection by way of the DGP, the station diary was once no longer discovered up-to-date, a laxity at the a part of the SHO, thus inviting disciplinary motion in opposition to him.
That is for the primary time that Singhal, a 1988 batch IPS officer, moved out of the police headquarters to check up on any police station within the state ever since he assumed price as DGP of Bihar on December 20, 2020. He had outmoded Gupteshwar Pandey, who took voluntary retirement 3 months prior to to sign up for politics.
Regardless that Singhal was once agenda to retire on August 31, 2021, his provider was once prolonged for 2 years from the appointment as DGP. His tenure will come to an finish on December 19, 2022.
On Friday, chief of opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav flayed the state govt for its failure to comprise crime. Homicide, loot, rape, extortion and kidnapping have change into a regimen affair within the state, he alleged and sought leader minister’s intervention.
The homicide of a Janata Dal United (JDU) functionary in Danapur close to Patna sparked off violent protest by way of his kinfolk and native citizens. A spate of murders within the state capital, together with participants of industrial neighborhood, has unnerved the highest brass of the state police.
Previous, the state police headquarters had issued directives to all vary IGs and DIGs to habits inspections of the police stations below their jurisdiction.
Then again, incidents of crime persisted unabated within the state.
