MUMBAI: A day after the Election Fee order, state govt on Tuesday despatched director normal of police (DGP) Rashmi Shukla on obligatory go away and appointed DG (authorized and technical) Sanjay Kumar Verma in her place. Shukla can be on go away till the mannequin code of conduct is in drive; Verma can be DGP for a similar interval.
Following the EC order, govt had submitted names of three senior IPS officers – Vivek Phansalkar, Ritesh Kumar, and Sanjay Verma – to the EC for appointment as DGP. After taking cost, Verma stated, “The religion that the Election Fee and the state administration has proven in me, I’m grateful and honoured by it. The election course of is on and the mannequin code of conduct is in drive. We are going to observe the procedures laid down and be certain that nobody has any doubts concerning police motion. I’ll conduct a gathering of officers and take solutions.”
Verma stated, “Our priorities are to make sure full compliance with the code of conduct. The police function is to discharge our responsibility fearlessly and confidently inside the guidelines and rules.”
Verma is the officer who headed the particular investigation crew that probed the 2015 killing of rationalist Govind Pansare. Shukla’s sudden removing was following complaints lodged by state Congress chief Nana Patole and different Opposition functionaries towards her. NCP-SP president Sharad Pawar had additionally just lately made essential observations in regards to the function of the law-enforcing businesses.
Following the EC order, Shukla was requested to proceed on go away, and cost was handed over to Mumbai police commissioner Phansalkar. There may be now a debate within the paperwork over Shukla’s standing after the EC order. A senior bureaucrat stated that Shukla stood retired from her publish as DGP and the two-year extension granted in January 2024 to her was particularly for this publish.
Now that she has been requested to proceed on go away till the code of conduct is in place, the query is will she be again as DGP. It is a resolution that the govt. has to make, he stated.
