The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has appointed a brand new Superintendent of Police in West Bengal – three months after the company had known as their SP rank officer at Delhi headquarters following the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) allegation {that a} BJP chief visited his home carrying money in an envelope.
In April, the TMC alleged in a memorandum to the Election Fee (EC), that the BJP was misusing the NIA to focus on its political opponents. The social gathering alleged that BJP member Jitendra Tiwari met an NIA SP rank officer at his residence on March 26. Together with its memorandum, the TMC submitted a duplicate of the customer’s register on the SP’s residence with an entry allegedly exhibiting Tiwari’s go to. The TMC claimed that Tiwari was seen getting into with a packet in his hand and when he left an hour later, he was empty-handed.
A supply mentioned that a number of days in the past, the Director Basic of NIA, Sadanand Date, had determined to nominate P H Mahesh Narain, a 2012-batch Manipur cadre IPS officer as SP Kolkata.
In April, they first had known as their SP rank officer at Delhi headquarters the place senior officers met him and questioned him about all of the allegations levelled by the TMC. After a month, he was requested to renew his obligation and until that point, a DIG-rank officer, was additionally despatched to West Bengal from Patna to oversee all of the work/circumstances.
“He was requested to renew his obligation after it was discovered that his conduct was not malafide, however he was dealing with the cost of Kolkata as ‘further cost’ and his important cost is said with the human trafficking unit in Delhi. He got here to NIA from the BSF on deputation in 2014 and can also be taking care of the extra cost of the human trafficking unit in Delhi,” the supply mentioned.
In April, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, accompanied by Bengal Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, instructed a press convention that whereas getting into a housing complicated the place the SP lives, Tiwari was carrying a white envelope containing cash. The TMC alleged that he met the NIA SP for 52 minutes on March 26, and two TMC employees have been arrested from Bhupatinagar on April 6 in reference to a 2022 blast case. Tiwari rejected the cost and demanded an apology from the TMC.
“Whether it is proved that we held any such assembly, then I’ll go away politics. Feeling the strain, the TMC is making an attempt to model the NIA raid as a political conspiracy. In line with the legal guidelines of our nation, they (TMC) ought to show the allegations in opposition to me. Apologise if you happen to can’t show it, or I’ll file a defamation case inside seven days,” Tiwari mentioned at the moment.
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