Chandan Kushwaha
Chandan Kushwaha | |
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Indian Police Service | |
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Nationality | Indian |
Profession | Commandant Home Guards (Bihar) former Superintendent of Police, Banka former SP Rohtas former city SP Patna |
Chandan Kumar Kushwaha[1] is an IPS officer, serving in Bihar. He has previously served as Superintendent of Police (SP) for Bihar's capital city Patna.[2] Kushwaha was later transferred to Banka district as Superintendent of Police.[3][4] Before being appointed as city SP of Patna, he was serving as SP for the Rohtas district. He was later shifted to Patna, replacing Shivdeep Lande as police superintendent.[5] In 2018, he was raised to the post of Commandant of Home Guards, as a result of which he was recalled from Banka. As per reports, in his sixteen-month service as the head of the police force of Banka, he took stringent measures to reduce the level of crime in the district.[6][7][8] He has also served as city SP for Gaya.[9] Kushwaha was investigation incharge of several high profile cases like 2013 Bodhagaya serial blasts[10] and 2016 Bihar Toppers Scam.[11]
Career
Kushwaha is a resident of Bhagalpur in Bihar. He was amongst the few officers to get his home cadre after completing his training of IPS.[12] As city SP of Banka, Kushwaha took various measures to control crime; he prepared a list of some of the top criminals, who were wanted in many offences. A total of nine such convicts, who were guilty of offences like
As SP of Banka, Kushwaha also took steps to keep the police department free from corruption. After airing of a sting operation conducted by a news channel, which revealed the connivance between some of the police officers and Sand Mafias of the region, he suspended some of the tainted officials and sent recommendation to higher authorities to release one of them from service.[15]
In 2016, Kushwaha was successful in arresting forty-five students of Iqbal Hostel, Patna, who were involved in
In 2015, Patna Police under him took action against Bihar state president of
As Rohtas SP in 2014, Kushwaha led a team to conduct a raid near Badhaiahbagh, around 15 km south of Sasaram to unearth the illegal stone quarrying activities being conducted therein. The team seized detonators and other explosives and arrested some of the mafias involved in it.[21] In 2017, Patna Police under him also conducted a raid near Mehndiganj, Patna with the help of Bihar State's Drug control authority to arrest the owners of a spurious drug factory, that was operating there for long.[22] Kushwaha was also one of the member of Special Investigation Team, which was probing "Bihar's Topper Scam", in which the accused named Bachha Rai was found guilty of taking money for enhancement of marks in Higher Secondary level school examination of the state education board.[23][24]
In 2015, Pappu Yadav, a former legislator from Purnia called a bandh (strike) over alleged beating and death of a student named Siku Raj by Border Security Force personnels and state police officials. The Jan Adhikar Party workers turned violent at many places and Yadav himself led a mob of over hundred people accompanied by former union minister Nagmani to surround Dak Bangla Square in Patna. In order to control the angry mob Kushwaha detained Yadav and Nagmani along with their supporters for twenty four hours until the situation became normal.[25] He was also a part of "Operation Viswas", an operation of Patna Police launched to arrest habitual criminals in domain of various organised crime within twenty four hours.[26]
Arrest of Anant Singh
In 2015, in connection with a criminal case,
Bihar Liquor Prohibition
In 2017, after Government of Bihar brought prohibition law against consumption of alcohol, Kushwaha was engaged in stringent implementation of the dry law in his domain of Banka district. He took resort to speedy trial and swift action to solve the cases of liquor consumption expeditiously.[32][33]
Anti Naxalite operation
In 2015, Rohtas police conducted an Anti
2013 Bodhgaya serial blasts
Kushwaha was serving as city SP for Gaya, when in 2013, Bodhagaya serial blasts happened. Though no group assumed the responsibility of this terrorist incident, in which two monks were wounded and holy shrines of Budhhism, located in Bodhagaya were targeted by small explosive devices, investigation unveiled that the attack were a response to violence against Mulslims in neighbouring Myanmar by Budhhists.[36] Subsequently, Kushwaha and District Development Officer Giridhar Dyal released the CCTV footage of the incident, in a bid to help National Investigation Agency study the case.[37] Later, on the basis of footage, Police was successful in arresting Vinod Mistri, a person suspect of blasts.[38] Five more suspects were arrested later from Patna in connection with the incident.[39]
See also
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