Within the dock for assembly with RSS leaders and the botched conduct of the Thrissur Pooram competition, senior IPS officer M R Ajith Kumar was eliminated by the Kerala authorities as ADGP for Legislation and Order. He’ll, nevertheless, proceed as ADGP, Armed Police Battalion.
An official communication from the Chief Minister’s Workplace mentioned ADGP (Intelligence) Manoj Abraham was appointed as the brand new ADGP for Legislation and Order.
The discharge additionally mentioned that state police chief Darvesh Sahib and a crew led by him had submitted experiences to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on the controversies associated to Kumar.
Kumar’s elimination from the important thing publish got here a day earlier than the Meeting session is scheduled to start out in Kerala. The Congress-led Opposition, and even these from the ruling CPI(M)’s alliance associate CPI, have been demanding the elimination of Kumar, who is thought to be an in depth confidant of CM Vijayan.
The motion is seen as an try to weaken the Opposition’s protest in opposition to the Chief Minister, who they accuse of harbouring the officer regardless of him going through allegations associated to the botched conduct of Pooram this 12 months. The federal government motion, nevertheless, has not prolonged to eradicating the officer from the police division.
Among the many allegations by the Opposition involving Kumar and the CM is the declare that the officer’s assembly with RSS basic secretary Dattatreya Hosabale in 2023 was meant to guard Vijayan’s pursuits. Kumar had met Hosabale in Thiruvananthapuram together with an RSS chief from Kerala, and had not particularly knowledgeable the state House Division about it. The federal government ordered a probe into the incident final month when the Opposition raised the problem.
The problems associated to the conduct of Thrissur Pooram, which got here simply days earlier than parliamentary elections had been held within the state, has been cited by many as one of many causes for the BJP successful Thrissur constituency, the get together’s solely Lok Sabha seat from Kerala.
In April, the state authorities had ordered a probe by Kumar into the Pooram debacle, and Kumar submitted a report on it within the final week of September.
On examination of the report, the federal government discovered lapses on the a part of Kumar, who was tenting in Thrissur on the time of the competition, however allegedly didn’t intervene to make sure its easy conduct. When police restrictions on crowd administration led to the winding up of the rituals, BJP candidate Suresh Gopi’s dramatic intervention led to the resumption of the competition occasions. The Cupboard had additionally ordered a probe by the police chief into the lapses of Kumar.
Unbiased legislator P V Anvar, who had snapped ties with the CPI(M) lately, had additionally raised severe allegations in opposition to Kumar. Anvar had alleged that Kumar had hyperlinks with gold smuggling gangs and that he had bought individuals killed. The ADGP can be going through a Vigilance probe for allegedly amassing wealth disproportionate to his identified sources of revenue.
