DGP Rajeev Kumar takes over as officiating DGP of West Bengal Police

New Delhi, December 28

Senior IPS officer Rajeev Kumar has been appointed as the acting director general of West Bengal Police.

Kumar took charge as incumbent Manoj Malaviya retired on December 27.

An IPS officer of 1989 batch, Rajeev Kumar was also in charge of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate, Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Special Task Force (STF) and was the secretary of the IT Department earlier. 

It is to be noted that Rajeev Kumar is the same IPS officer for whom present CM Mamta Bannerjee had sat on a dharna. Kunar was CP Kolkata then. 

In 2019, when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) went to Rajeev Kumar’s residence to interrogate him in a chit fund case, Banerjee sat in protest at Esplanade against the CBI action. 

Meanwhile, Home Secretary Bhagwati Prasad Gopalika, a 1989-cadre IAS officer, is set to take charge as the new chief secretary. Outgoing Chief Secretary H K Dwivedi was given an extension of six months and his tenure will end on January 31.