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The West Bengal government has appointed former Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar as the state's new Director General and Inspector General of Police (DG and IGP).
The current West Bengal Chief Secretary HK Dwivedi is already on an extension. The 1988-batch IAS officer's term was extended by the government on June 28 earlier this year.
Bengal Police has booked top CBI officials for the Birbhum violence case accused’s custodial death. Given the past, this could trigger another round of state-Centre fighting.
Justice Abjijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday gave full liberty to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take the former chairman of West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) and ex-Vice Chancellor of the .