After violence in Mangaluru, 56 cops transferred

The reshuffle consists of personnel from a number of police stations and particular items such because the Crime Management Bureau and the Particular Enforcement Cell. Based on the commissioner’s workplace, the train is a routine administrative measure designed to enhance operational effectiveness, they added.

Amongst these transferred is Bajpe police station head constable Rashid, who has been on the centre of controversy following the homicide of right-wing member Suhas Shetty. Rashid has now been posted to the Mangaluru ladies’s police station. BJP leaders had alleged that Rashid had “joined arms with Suhas’ killers,” fuelling public outrage and calls for for accountability, a declare the officer had denied.

“The personnel reshuffle follows the state authorities’s broader push to bolster regulation enforcement capability within the coastal belt. It is a follow-up to the switch of the senior IPS officers just lately,” mentioned senior residence division official.

Amid criticism that the Congress authorities has did not curb communal violence within the aftermath of Shetty’s homicide, there have been rising requires the resignation or substitute of in-charge minister Dinesh Gundu Rao and residential minister G Parameshwara.

In response to the charged ambiance, Parameshwara visited Mangaluru on Monday and rolled out a number of countermeasures. One of many key initiatives was the formation of a Particular Motion Pressure geared toward curbing communal violence in coastal Karnataka. This process pressure, launched on June 13 in Mangaluru, is at present beneath the extra cost of police commissioner Reddy.

“The Particular Motion Pressure has now been carried out,” an official famous, including that the most recent spherical of transfers is an element of a bigger restructuring plan. “The workers who’ve been in the identical place for a few years have been transferred.”

Officers indicated that a whole bunch extra transfers may comply with within the coming weeks.