Police officer transferred in firing case

A police officer has been transferred for dereliction of duty following the firing incident in Short Street in the heart of the city that claimed two lives, police sources said tonight.
Piyush Kundu, the officer-incharge of Shakespeare Sarani police station, was transferred to security control after a departmental inquiry found that he had made light of the incident in the disputed piece of land in Short Street.
He was replaced by Arun Dutta who was previously attached with the detective department.
Kundu's transfer came three days after Noor Ali, the Investigating Officer of the Short Street firing case, was removed from duty after a departmental inquiry charged him with negligence in investigations.

The sources said the occupant of the disputed property, Mamata Agarwal, had told her interrogators that several complaints were made earlier on the threat to her by rivals, but no step was taken by the local police station and the officer in particular.
A departmental inquiry later found the allegations to be true and that the officer neither took any step nor informed his superiors, which might have aggravated the situation and led to the incident.
Two persons were shot dead and another seriously injured after Agarwal, who runs a Montessori school at the disputed site, and a security guard allegedly fired on a group of people belonging to a rival claimant, who appeared with their lawyer to take possession of the property in the wee hours of November 11.