BJP protests at BMC HQ over alleged forced quarantine of a Bihar cadre IPS officer

A shameful Bihar police versus Mumbai police tussle over jurisdiction issue in Sushant Singh Rajput’s murder case being played out in Mumbai

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Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party corporators held a protest against Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) municipal commissioner, Iqbal Singh Chahal on Monday afternoon for forcibly putting a Bihar cadre IPS officer under quarantine who had arrived in Mumbai to lead the team of Bihar police which is investigating the case of suicide of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

Following yesterday’s tweet from the Bihar police which said that the senior IPS officer from Patna was forcibly quarantined by the Civic authorities in Mumbai, on Monday the BMC also released as a reply to the tweets of the Bihar police.

The BMC released a statement on the issue of media reporting that the police officer from Bihar State who has arrived at Goregaon in Mumbai from Bihar, on Sunday (Aug 2) has been quarantined by BMC authorities. In this regard, the Municipal Administration has released a statement.

According to the statement the P-South ward of the BMC received information that the said officer Vinay Tiwari arrived in SRPF group 8 Guesthouse, Goregaon (East). It’s a rule that domestic traveller needs to be guided for home quarantine as per the State Government Guidelines. The statement further states that BP South ward team approached him at the said guesthouse yesterday evening (August  2).

The Bihar police chief has alleged that Vinay Tiwari, a senior IPS officer sent from Patna, was “forcibly quarantined” by civic authorities in Mumbai. Patna police officer Vinay Tiwari was quarantined by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) with his hand stamped indicating the isolation period till August 15.

The statement said “Police officer Vinay Tiwari has been quarantined as per the present guidelines for domestic arrivals at Mumbai Airport. Tiwari reached Mumbai on Sunday to aid the junior officers already in the city. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said the officer has also been “guided to apply to the competent authority of MCGM (Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai) for exemption in the home quarantine period”.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) protested against the BMC over the issue with Prabhakar Shinde BJP, group leader in the BMC leading the protests.
” I condemn this unlawful act of the BMC by the orders of the BMC commissioner, Iqbal Chahal of forcibly putting an IPS officer in quarantine just because he came to Mumbai to investigate the mystery of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. We had asked for an appointment with BMC municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal so that we could talk to him. But he made the excuse of having a meeting with Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, he left before we reached. Hence we staged protest. It is indeed an unfortunate incident where Bihar Police officials coming to Mumbai nowadays in connection with this case, but you are not supporting them. An IPS officer was quarantined forcibly”, said Prabhakar Shinde, BJP group leader in Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM).

Tiwari is heading the Bihar police team which arrived at Mumbai to investigate the Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide mystery.

By Vikas Nag