EC effects IPS rejig, new SP for Alipurduar

Kolkata: The Election Commission on Saturday transferred a number of IPS officers, including the SP of Alipurduar and the DCP of Chandernagore. It has sought a compliance report by Sunday.
SP Amitabha Maiti of Alipurduar, where polling is scheduled on April 10, is being replaced by Amit Kumar Singh while Abhishek Modi will be the new DCP of Chandernagore in place of Tathagata Basu.In the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Singh had been made the SP of Cooch Behar district, two days before Cooch Behar went to polls.
Kharagpur SRP Awadesh Pathak has been posted as DC (South) of Barrackpore police. Diamond Harbour DSP Mithun De is being replaced by Shyamal Kumar Mondal while Falta IC Abhijit Hait will make way for Atanu Ghosal who was an inspector of EB. In 2019, De who was then the SDPO of Diamond Harbour was shifted to the Intelligence Branch ahead of polls.