Senior IPS officer Jag Mohan has been appointed as the new Commissioner of Police of Siliguri Police Commissionerate, which fell vacant after the removal of K Jayaraman.
State Secretariat sources said Jag Mohan, an IPS officer of the 1991 batch, who was holding the post of IGP(I), CID, would soon take charge.
Jayaraman, a 1997-batch IPS officer who had arrested Malda District Magistrate G Kiran Kumar and was of the rank of a DIG, has now been put on compulsory waiting by the state government for not consulting his higher-ups before proceeding with the arrest.
Malda DM G Kiran Kumar, who was asked to go on leave by the state government following his alleged involvement in a scam, had already been replaced by Sharad Dwivedi.
In another move, C V Muralidhar, a 1984-batch IPS officer posted as Managing Director, Police Housing Corporation in the state, has also been asked to take over as ADG, Counter Intelligence Force, West Bengal replacing K L Tamta.
Tamta, a 1985-batch IPS officer, would now take over as Managing Director, Police Housing Corporation, sources said.
