Former IPS officer and head of CID, West Bengal Police, Pankaj Dutta died on Saturday at a hospital in Varanasi the place he was admitted a month in the past after struggling a cerebral assault throughout an occasion. Dutta was 73.
Serving as Superintendent of Police in Malda district, Dutta gained accolades. He went on to steer the Felony Investigation Division (CID) of West Bengal Police, and retired as IG, Intelligence Bureau (IB), Ministry of Dwelling Affairs. He used to attend numerous digital media packages usually in his retirement life.
Final month, Dutta was participating in an occasion in Varanasi when he fell sick. Since then, he has been in a hospital.
In the meantime, Dutta’s demise led to a pointy assault in opposition to the ruling TMC in West Bengal by the Opposition BJP. The BJP blamed the TMC authorities for Dutta’s demise, alleging that “interrogation” of the previous officer throughout the RG Kar protests led to his demise.
He used to attend numerous digital media packages usually in his retirement life.
A outstanding critic of the TMC authorities within the state, Dutta was a daily throughout panel discussions in TV information channels.
Through the protests over the rape and homicide of a junior physician at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, Dutta’s remark at an occasion sparked an issue. A FIR was registered in opposition to him. It was alleged that police questioned him for over six hours.
Chief of the Opposition in Meeting, Suvendu Adhikari, on Sunday blamed police for Dutta’s demise. Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar additionally stated: “He (Dutta) has been murdered. He died from the psychological trauma after the best way the state police harassed him at CM Mamata Banerjee’s behest.”
Condoling Dutta’s demise, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh hit out on the BJP for politicising the previous officer’s demise. “If a police officer is known as by the police at some point, will his coronary heart fail? Why did he (Dutta) go to Varanasi to talk at an occasion if he was in dangerous well being,” the TMC spokesperson requested as he slammed the BJP.
Kunal Ghosh stated regardless of “ideological and political variations” with Dutta, he shared a particular relationship with the previous high cop. “We used to speak typically. My honest condolences on his passing,” Ghosh added.
