Immediately release 3 IPS agents for central delegation: MHA to West Bengal government | India News

NEW DELHI: The Center on Thursday asked the Government of West Bengal to immediately relieve three IPS officers to join central deputation, saying all of them have already been assigned new assignments, according to officials.
The Interior Ministry, in a communication to the Chief Secretary of West Bengal, said that according to the rules of the IPS cadre, the Center prevails over the state government in case of any dispute.
Criticizing the Center’s orders, West Bengal Prime Minister Mamta Bannerjee called the transfer order of IPS officers a flagrant misuse of IPS’s emergency provision Cadre Rule 1954.

The prime minister said that the decision is unconstitutional and completely unacceptable and that it invades the jurisdiction of the state.

Bannerjee said that state machinery cannot be allowed to be controlled by proxy.

New responsibilities at the Center were assigned to the IPS officers concerned: Bholanath Pandey has been designated as BPRD SP, Praveen Tripathi as SSB DIG and Rajeev Mishra as ITBP IG.
Home ministry had called the three IPS officers from the West Bengal cadre in the central delegation, as part of an exercise to correct responsibility for the alleged lapses that led to the November 10 attack on the convoy of BJP President JP Nadda, near Calcutta.
The ministry had requested the consent of the West Bengal government on the matter before December 15.
The three IPS officers were directly in charge of Nadda’s security detachment at the time of the mob attack. Mishra was ADG, South Bengal; Tripathi was DIG, Presidency Range; and Pandey was SP, Diamond Harbor.
While Nadda had escaped unscathed due to her bulletproof car, other BJP leaders such as Kailash Vijayvarghiya were injured and their cars damaged.