KOLKATA: A fresh controversy has surfaced in West Bengal as the inspector attached to Birbhum District Police, who was abused earlier this year by Trinamool Congress strongman Anurbrata Mondal, has now been transferred to a distant district by the state police directorate.
The inspector of police, Liton Halder, who had so far been the inspector-in-charge of the Bolpur Police Station, has transferred to Jalpaiguri in North Bengal, and that too at a lesser significant post of inspector of the district intelligence branch (DIB).
The development has sparked a controversy with opposition parties claiming that the transfer of Halder was intentional.
At the same time, no substantial police action had been initiated against Mondal, even after abusing an on-duty cop in highly defamatory language.