Amidst a recent development, a senior ex-IPS officer, Mr. Debashish Dhar, who resigned from the bureaucracy on March 20th citing “personal reason” and “social goals,” featured in Bengal BJP’s candidature list for Lok Sabha election from Birbhum District. Mr. Dhar said, “I wanted to do something for the people, thus I became an IPS officer. After 2021, I could not work and was humiliated. My house also was raided by West Bengal Police. My mother, who has never seen such things, told me not to see her. I have not talked to my daughter for so long. I wanted to do something so that this system gets cleared.”
Mr. Dhar is a 2010 batch IPS officer who served as the superintendent of police of Coochbehar before getting suspended over the violence during the 2021 West Bengal Assembly, which took the life of four people killed in Sitalkuchi following an alleged firing by central forces. His abode was also raided by the West Bengal CID in September 2022 over a “disproportionate assets case.” Sources in the CID allege that the IPS officer’s possessions had increased at an “exorbitant rate” from 2015 to 2018 — a claim that is vehemently denied by Mr. Dhar and labeled by him as a “political vendetta.”
