Kolkata Port Trust Chairman Raj Pal Singh Kahlon, who was arrested yesterday for allegedly taking bribe, has been repatriated to his parent cadre - West Bengal.
Kahlon, a 1984-batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, was remanded to police custody following his arrest from a five-star hotel here for allegedly taking a Rs 20 lakh bribe from a representative of a container terminal firm.
"Kolkata Port Trust Chairman has been repatriated to his parent cadre," an official source in the Ministry of Shipping told PTI.
Kolkata Police sleuths had arrested Kahlon, alongwith D D Jagtap Dattaji, who allegedly paid Rs 20 lakh to the bureaucrat, from the hotel premises in the heart of the city on March 9.
Police had been keeping a watch on the IAS officer following a tip-off from a source and intercepted Kahlon and Dattaji following the alleged transaction.
They were produced at the Bankshall Court yesterday and sent to police remand for eight days.
