A day after the visit of the full bench of Election Commission, five SPs and a district magistrate in West Bengal were removed from poll duties following complaints against them.
"The Election Commission removed a DM and five SPs from their poll duties following complaints against them," state chief electoral officer Sunil Gupta told reporters here.
Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath had stated here yesterday that the police and administrative officials had been asked to work impartially and neutrally to ensure a free, fair and peaceful election.
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"Steps will be taken immediately if any complaint is proved against any official," he had said.
Asked against how many officials in the state the EC was mulling action in view of complaints against them, Sampath said, "You will come to know about it within two or three days."
Gupta said that the removed SPs included R K Yadav of Malda, Humayun Kabir of Murshidabad, S M H Mirza of Burdwan, Bharati Ghosh of West Midnapore and Jhargram police district (Dual charge) and Sanjay Bansal, DM, North 24 Paraganas.
The EC has asked the state Chief Secretary Sanjay Mitra to execute the order immediately.
It also directed that the state government might give posting to the removed officials in non-election related posts with necessary intimation to the Election Commission.
The EC directive said that Rupesh Kumar would take over as SP, Malda district, Syed Waquar Raja will take over as SP, Murshidabad, Miraj Khalid as SP, Burdwan, Rashid Munir Khan as SP, Birbhum, and Sisram Jhajoria will take over as SP, West Midnapore district.
The EC also ordered transfer of Birbhum SP Alok Rajoria, who has been asked to take over as SP of Jhargram police district.
Gupta said that the state Health Secretary Onkar Singh Meena had been given the responsibility as DM of North 24-Parganas district replacing Sanjay Bansal.
Apart from this, ADM West Midnapore district Arindam Dutta has also been removed from the present post.
Similarly, the Returning Officer of Mathurapur parliamentary constituency Alokesh Prasad Roy has been removed by the Commission.
