Overview
- The Home and Hill Affairs Department followed Thursday’s overhaul of more than 40 senior officers, including at least 10 SPs, with a Friday order shifting 57 more officers at ACP, SDPO, IC and Deputy SP ranks across multiple districts and commissionerates.
- Key movements include Jhargram SP Arijit Sinha’s promotion to DIG, Midnapore Range, Soumyadip Bhattacharya’s transfer from East Midnapore to Bankura, and Malda SP Pradeep Kumar Yadav’s posting as SP (Traffic), Uttar Dinajpur.
- Intelligence and commissionerate postings were realigned, with Sachin moving from Senior Superintendent, IB, to DC, New Town (Bidhannagar PC), and Paschim Medinipur SP Dhritiman Sarkar taking over as Senior Superintendent, IB.
- The government describes the reshuffle as routine and consistent with Election Commission tenure norms, while opposition leaders portray the timing during voter roll revision as politically driven.
- The latest orders follow an earlier statewide movement of 175 inspectors, and reporting notes that East Midnapore lost both its SP and Additional SP (Sadar) without successors named so far.