Verma is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1998 batch. (Picture: News18)
Sources say Manoj Verma has been a identified troubleshooter in West Bengal police each beneath the Left and Trinamool Congress administrations
Manoj Verma is the brand new police commissioner of Kolkata, changing Vineet Goyal who has been transferred to the Particular Process Pressure as further director normal (ADG). The change has come at a time when the Kolkata police division is maybe going through its greatest disaster over the dealing with of the rape-murder case of a health care provider at RG Kar Hospital.
Verma is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1998 batch who was the ADG and IGP (regulation & order) in his final project. He has been changed by Jawed Shamim.
Many are asking why Verma was picked for the Kolkata police commissioner’s submit within the thick of an imbroglio. That’s as a result of, sources say, Manoj Verma has been a identified troubleshooter in West Bengal police each beneath the Left and Trinamool Congress administrations.
Within the Left period, when the Maoist problem was at its peak, Verma because the superintendent of police in Paschim Medinipur dealt with it with nice dexterity, sources say.
In 2011, when the TMC dethroned the Left in West Bengal, sources say Verma initially didn’t get an excellent posting, however later he as soon as once more turned one of many key folks to deal with the Maoist drawback beneath Mamata Banerjee’s authorities as he was a part of the counterinsurgency pressure.
Then he was moved to the Siliguri Commissionerate because the DIG. When there have been tensions in Darjeeling, he dealt with the scenario there because the IG of north Bengal.
In 2019, he turned the commissioner in Barrackpore at a time when incidents of violence had change into frequent with TMC strongman Arjun Singh switching to the BJP. Sources say that he dealt with his duties effectively as ADG (regulation & order) as effectively.
Based on officers, Verma’s profession graph exhibits that he has dealt with robust conditions and are available out with flying colors. He carried out effectively in Jangalmahal, Darjeeling, and Barrackpore, they are saying, and that proper now Kolkata police want somebody to repair their picture.
Sources say there has additionally been some discontent within the police pressure because the arrest of station home officer (SHO) Abhijit Mondal by the Central Bureau of Investigation final week in reference to the RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case. A number of police officers have modified their social media show photos to black. Some have additionally met Mondal’s household. On this scenario, say sources, a frontrunner is required who will enhance the morale of the pressure.
Based on them, Verma has labored in Kolkata police as DC (visitors) and this expertise will even assist him.
