The Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered the suspension of four Kolkata Police officers and disciplinary proceedings over chaos outside a nomination centre where senior Suvendu Adhikari and other BJP candidates filed their papers amid clashes and alleged slogan-shouting by ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers.
According to a senior EC official, the four officers include Siddhartha Dutta, deputy commissioner-II of South Division, Priyankar Chakraborty, officer-in-charge (OC) of Alipore police station, Chandi Charan Banerjee, additional OC, and Saurabh Chatterjee, sergeant.
The chaos erupted after Union home minister Amit Shah accompanied Adhikari, who is contesting against chief minister Mamata Banerjee from the Bhabanipur seat, to the Alipore Survey Building, where they filed their papers.
Clashes broke out after local TMC workers gathered on both sides of the road and shouted anti-BJP slogans, allegedly targeting Adhikari, who defeated Banerjee in Nandigram in 2021.
