The Bihar DGP made to the news this year when the Sushant Singh Rajput case started gaining a form of a movement to get justice for the deceased actor.
On Tuesday, the Bihar government accepted DGP Gupteshwar Pandey’s voluntary retirement from service with effect from September 22. S K Singhal, the DGP of Home Guards has been given additional charge of Bihar DGP.
According to sources, Pandey is likely to contest the assembly election from his home turf Buxar and has been promised a ticket from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Though, this is not the first time Pandey has used the voluntary retirement scheme (VRS). In 2009, Pandey had resigned from the IPS. There were speculations about him fighting elections even back then, but Pandey didn’t fit in the equations and was reinstated in IPS after he urged the government.
The Bihar DGP made to the news this year when the Sushant Singh Rajput case started gaining a form of a movement to get justice for the deceased actor. Pandey bashed the Mumbai Police along with BJP politicians after his officers were allegedly ill-treated by the Maharashtra government when they went to carry investigation in the complaint registered by the actor’s father. Pandey openly supported the transfer of the case to the CBI and rejoiced after the supreme court transferred the case to the CBI. That was when he infamously asked Rhea Chakraborty’s aukat (stature) to question the Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, for which he had to face heavy backlash.
Pandey, while talking to reporters Tuesday evening, said: “I am no longer DGP (Director General of Police) as of today. So no government rules apply to me anymore. As for what I will do… people are coming from Buxar, Jehanabad, Begusarai, many other districts…people are coming to me. I will speak to people as to how they want my service and then take a decision.”
“I have not said that I will contest polls yet,” Pandey insisted on the question of whether he would contest the upcoming Bihar assembly polls.
“I haven’t joined any party. When I do I will tell all of you. Politics is not the only way of serving society.”
He also stressed that his retirement has nothing to do with the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.
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