KOLKATA: Kolkata police crime wing's first woman chief Damayanti Sen, the IPS officer who punctured Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claims and cracked the Park Street rape case, was today transferred to a relatively low profile posting.
Sen, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), was shifted as DIG (Training), Barrackpore Police Training College (PTC).
Damayanti sen biography examples New Delhi: Damayanti Sen, the IPS officer of West Bengal cadre who shot to fame during the infamous Park Street gang rape case a decade ago, has once again been entrusted by the Calcutta High Court to lead the investigation into the four rape cases that rocked West Bengal in the last one month. Damayanti Sen is known to her colleagues as an upright officer who does not compromise with her work even under political influence. A senior IPS officer from West Bengal, who spoke to this newspaper on the condition of anonymity, said that the choice of Damayanti Sen to lead the investigation into the rape cases in Bengal is an apt choice by the court as she can bring justice to the victims and their family members. Having worked with her, she is a very bright and upright officer. She will not compromise on her work.
The first woman Joint CP (Crime) since was among 60 IPS officers reshuffled in the first such major exercise after the Banerjee government came to power in West Bengal in May last year.
The IPS officer, who maintains a low profile, was instrumental in successfully solving the case of rape of a year-old Anglo-Indian woman, a mother of two, after partying at Park Street on February five even though Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dismissed the incident as 'fabricated'.
The victim had claimed that among the persons who were in the car when she was allegedly raped at gunpoint and threatened her while she was returning from a night club, was a man named Lavi Gidwani.
The police after investigating had found that Gidwani was in Canada since January two, while two others were found to be elsewhere, which had led Sen to state that there were 'inconsistencies' in the statement of the woman, who reported the incident four days after it took place.
Sen, however, perservered with the investigations with the police identifying the real culprits from the CCTV footage from the night club.
Damayanti sen biography examples in english Damayanti Sen, Kolkata's first woman joint commissioner of police Crime who endeared herself to the masses by her single-minded pursuit and subsequent cracking of the sensational Park Street rape case , was on Wednesday shunted out to an insignificant post, triggering angry reactions across the city. Sen has now been made Deputy Inspector General of Police Training , Barrackpore, considered a garage posting for an Indian Police Service officer till now entrusted with solving the complex crime cases in the metropolis. In stark contrast to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who dismissed the allegations of an Anglo-Indian woman that she was raped in a moving car Feb 6 as "cooked up" and "an attempt to malign the government", Sen had said: "Something must have occurred. She, along with her team of dedicated officers continued the investigation with gusto, and then arrested three people to confirm that the mother of two had indeed been raped. Sen's success in solving the case had also run counter to city Police Commissioner Ranjit Pachnanda's comment that the allegation was a campaign to "malign the police and the government.
Sumit Bajaj, Rehman Khan who had masqueraded as Lavi Gidwani and Ruman Khan, were identified and arrested on February
The main accused Kadir Khan, however, absconded. With Sen being feted in the media, the lady officer after a meeting with the chief minister on February 20 had issued a clarification that the success in solving the case was a 'entirely a combined effort'.
Earlier, the chief minister had claimed that the incident was a 'fabricated story' and intended to malign her government and blamed some TV channels for projecting it.
Sen was replaced in the reshuffle by Pallab Kanti Ghosh, who was Joint CP (Organisation).