Kolkata: Former Tala police station OC Abhijit Mandal chose to walk silently to his lawyer's car after getting default bail following CBI's inability to file a charge sheet against him in 90 days due to lack of evidence. Exactly 24 hours later, Mandal chose to keep himself confined to his residence. However, in between, he did meet several of his colleagues who gathered to express their solidarity with him.
Mandal was arrested last Sept in the RG Kar rape and murder case on charges of destruction of evidence.
Ever since the news broke on Friday, several mid-level officers put up DPs on their social media accounts that read ‘Satyameva Jayate'. On Saturday, a few of them took to social media to plead to stop a witch hunt and to try and play the blame game without going into details of the evidence collected. "We knew truth shall always prevail," wrote one such colleague.
However, on questions of whether Mandal was putting in any application to revoke his suspension, they chose to remain non-committal. "Let it be his decision," said one such colleague who met Mandal after his release.
On record, Lalbazar sources said that once the suspended officer moves a formal petition stating the legal status of the case, the officer who passed the order of suspension can also take a decision to revoke the same.
Right after CBI carried out the arrest, multiple police station and traffic guard OCs in Kolkata Police changed their WhatsApp display pictures to black in protest, claiming the senior officers were not standing by him.
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