New Delhi: Director General of Police (DGP) Bihar Gupteshwar Pandey has requested early retirement from the services and his state Governor, Phagu Chauhan, has reportedly accepted his resignation.
The development comes ahead of the Assembly survey in Bihar scheduled to take place in October-November.
Gupteshwar Pandey, a 1987 IPS officer from the Bihar cadre, had recently made headlines during the investigation into the death case of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
Pandey openly criticized the Mumbai police in the death of the late actor. He had also sparked controversy when he said actress Rhea Chakraborty did not have the “stature” to comment on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Meanwhile DGP, Home Guards, SK Singhal, has received the additional charge from Bihar DGP.
Notably, in 2014 Pandey had similarly applied for voluntary retirement as he was reportedly immersing himself in politics and hoping to get a BJP ticket.
However, he failed to obtain a ticket and nine months after taking VRS, Pandey petitioned the Bihar government to allow him to withdraw his resignation.
His application was accepted by the government led by Nitish Kumar and the high-ranking policeman joined the job again. He became the DGP of the Bihar police just before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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