Click to play videoKolkata: Questions are still being asked about the police officer's transfer by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The big question is whether there is more to the transfer of top woman police officer Damayanti Sen than mere reshuffling.
It's the biggest police shake-up since Mamata Banerjee came to power. Sixty IPS officers have been transferred across lines but one name has baffled all, Damayanti Sen, the first woman top police officer heading the city's crime branch lauded by all for cracking the Park Street rape case and giving justice to a 37-year-old. Damayanti's investigation contradicted Mamata's claims that the rape victim had fabricated her account to malign her government. Damayanti Sen has now been transferred as the DIG, training, which is a punishment post in police circles.
Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman said, "What has happened is unfair and is wrong. This transfer smacks of vengeance. It was revenge."
Many believe that the transfer will deepen the mistrust between the police and those in power.
Former Police Commissioner Sandhi Mukherjee said, "Police officers can't be treated like football. Damayanti was a brave officer, she was a professional. What can this transfer mean?"
From Facebook to Twitter, Kolkata is protesting and standing firmly in Damanyanti's support is rape victim, the woman whose cry for justice was heard by no one else.
Touted as a routine transfer of officers, Mamata Banerjee, also heading the home department of the state, has so far offered no explanation behind the transfer or the supposed intent. But the delicate balance between the Writers' Building and Lalbazar, the police headqaurters certainly now seems to be more fraught.
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