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 Legal 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 applications often in his retirement life.
Final month, Dutta was collaborating in an occasion in Varanasi when he fell sick. Since then, he has been in a hospital.
In the meantime, Dutta’s dying led to a pointy assault towards 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 in the course of the RG Kar protests led to his dying.
He used to attend numerous digital media applications often in his retirement life.
A outstanding critic of the TMC authorities within the state, Dutta was once an everyday throughout panel discussions in TV information channels.
In the course of 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 argument. A FIR was registered towards 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 dying. Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar additionally stated: “He (Dutta) has been murdered. He died from the psychological trauma after the way in which the state police harassed him at CM Mamata Banerjee’s behest.”
Condoling Dutta’s dying, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh hit out on the BJP for politicising the previous officer’s dying. “If a police officer is known as by the police someday, 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 prime cop. “We used to speak typically. My honest condolences on his passing,” Ghosh added.
