Bowing to Agitating Doctors Demand WB Govt Replaces Kolkata Police Chief

Kolkata: As per the promise made by the West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to the protesting doctors during their meeting on Monday, the West Bengal government transferred Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal and replaced him with Manoj Kumar Verma.

Manoj Kumar Verma, a 1998-batch IPS is at present the Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order).

Vineet Goyal, a 1994-batch IPS was the Kolkata Police Commissioner since December 2021. He will take charge as the Additional Director General of Police and Inspector General of Police (Special Task Force).

The transfers and appointments were announced in a notification on Tuesday afternoon.

The Deputy Commissioner, North Division – where the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital is located, Abhishek Gupta, will be replaced by Dipak Sarkar. The parents of the doctor who was raped and murdered at the hospital on August 9 had alleged that Gupta had offered them money.