Jyotirmay Chakravarty
Jyotirmay Chakravarty (born 1 March 1962, Assamese: জ্যোতিৰ্ময় চক্ৰৱৰ্তী), also spelled as Jyotirmoy Chakravarty, was a 1986 (39 RR) batch IPS officer.[1][2] He served as the first Commissioner of Police in Guwahati.[3] He voluntarily retired from the Indian Police Service in 2020, despite being promoted to the Director General level police officer in 2019 by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Police career[edit]
Services[edit]
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In 2019, Jyotirmay Chakravarty was promoted to a Director General level police officer by the Ministry of Home Affairs of Government of India.[4][5] But, in 2020, Chakravarty voluntary retired while serving as the Special director general of the Sashastra Seema Bal, a border guarding force of India.[6][7] Chakravarty also posted a message on his Facebook account about his voluntary retirement.[8] Chakravarty was known as daring and un-compromising IPS officer in his service life.[9]
Before taking voluntary retirement, Chakravarty served in major police departments in India including : as the first Commissioner of Police, Guwahati, Assam,[10][11] Additional director general,[12][13] the National Security Guard (NSG) (a counter-terrorism unit of India, as the Inspector general (IGP)),[14] the Special Protection Group (SPG) (an agency of the Government of India with sole responsibility of protecting the Prime Minister of India, for 7 years as the Inspector general (IGP)),[15] and as Deputy inspector general (DIG) at the Special Branch, a counter-terrorist and counterintelligence unit of Assam Police.[16]
Investigations and actions[edit]
Chakravarty was the chief investigator of the multi-crore "Vision Assam Mission Assam" scam; the Director of Information and Public Relations Ranjit Gogoi, and several other officials were arrested in that scam.[17] He was also the chief investigator for the homicide case of the Superintendent of Police of Hamren Nityananda Goswami and his security guard in 2014.[18]
In 2015, Chakravarty, then Commissioner of Police, issued 144 of the CrPC and stopped Vishva Hindu Parishad leader Pravin Togadia from attending a convention of the organisation[19] that was supposed to be held in Guwahati.[20] In 2015, Chakravarty suspended the Officer-in-charge (OC) of the Latashil police station of Guwahati following an assault of a lady journalist in the police station.[21] During his tenure as the Commissioner of Police, MLA Dr. Rumi Nath was arrested in connection with a car theft racket.[22][23]
Interviews and commentaries[edit]
In an interview with news agency Press Trust of India (PTI), Chakravarty, then serving as the Commissioner of Police, acknowledged that the image of the Assam police was not good. In the interview, he said that police should try to improve police-public relations.[24] Chakravarty, who was never selected for a top post, despite being only on a level of a Director-general after serving 34 years in the Indian Police Service,[lower-alpha 1] openly criticized the government's bureaucracy policy, and said "In my view, civil services are becoming irrelevant and the top posts are always handpicked."[25]
Awards[edit]
- Police Medal For Meritorious Service, 2002 [16]
- President's Police Medal For Distinguished Service, 2010 [26]
| Police appointments | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by First incumbent |
Commissioner of Police 1 January 2015 - 16 June 2015 |
Succeeded by Mukesh Agarwal |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy". Archived from the original on 5 February 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Civil list of Indian police service". The Civil list of Indian police service. 49: 59. ISSN 0536-9479 – via WorldCat.
- ↑ "Chakravarty to be Guwahati's first Police Commissioner". Business Standard India. Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 30 December 2014.
- ↑ "Jyotirmoy Chakravarty IPS empanelled to DGP, GoI | Indian Bureaucracy is an Exclusive News Portal". Indian Bureaucracy. 29 June 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ "Information Note : No. 35/4/2019-EO(SM-I)" (PDF). Centralized Circular Information System, India. 25 June 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 April 2022.
- ↑ "আইপিএছ বিষয়া জ্যোতিৰ্ময় চক্ৰৱৰ্তীৰ স্বেচ্ছা অৱসৰ..." TIME8. 28 September 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ↑ "Memo No. HMA(IPS) 132/138-A" (PDF). Government of Assam. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 April 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ "Parting note by first Guwahati Commissioner of Police Jyotirmay Chakravarty - Sentinelassam". Sentinel Assam. The Sentinel (Guwahati). 2 November 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ↑ Bharat, ETV (1 November 2020). "স্বেচ্ছাই অৱসৰ গ্ৰহণ সুদক্ষ আই পি এছ বিষয়া জ্যোতিৰ্ময় চক্ৰৱৰ্তীৰ". ETV Bharat News. ETV Bharat News. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- ↑ "Guwahati gets Police Commissioner, joins ranks of big cities". DNA India. DNA India. 1 January 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ↑ "Jyotirmoy Chakravarty to be Guwahati's first Police Commissioner | Assam News". Zee News. Zee News. 30 December 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ Ray, Sanjoy (15 September 2015). "IPS officer to head jails in State". Assam Tribune. The Assam Tribune. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- ↑ Choudhary, Ila (30 December 2014). "Assam CM Gogoi appoints Jyotirmoy Chakravarty as first Police Commissioner of Guwahati". The Sen Times. The Sen Times. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ↑ Kashyap, Samudra Gupta (30 June 2011). "Assam transfers 6 IGPs - Indian Express". Indian Express Archive. The Indian Express. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ Choudhury, R. Dutta (31 December 2014). "Police Commissioner to take oath today". The Assam Tribune. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "POLICE MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE- INDEPENDENCE DAY - 2002". Press Information Bureau. Archived from the original on 20 April 2022.
- ↑ Kashyap, Samudra Gupta (7 November 2017). "Assam IPR director arrested for Rs 30-cr publicity scam of Congress regime". The Indian Express. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ "Assam Police order probe into SP killing | Guwahati News - Times of India". The Times of India. The Times of India. 9 June 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ↑ "Togadia prevented from making speeches in Assam". Deccan Herald. Deccan Herald. 12 February 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ↑ Talukdar, Sushanta (12 February 2015). "Togadia not allowed to address VHP meet in Guwahati". The Hindu. The Hindu. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ "Commissioner promises action in scribe assault case | Guwahati News - Times of India". The Times of India. The Times of India. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ↑ Bora, Bijay Sankar (15 April 2015). "Assam MLA held over 'links' with carjackers". Tribuneindia News Service. Tribune India. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ↑ "Rumi Nath MLA from Barkhola in Cachar district was arrested-IndiaTV News". India TV News. India TV. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ↑ "Guwahati Police Commissioner Bats for Non-Coercive Policing". The New Indian Express. The New Indian Express. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
- ↑ Sharma, Ankur; Dutta, Amrita Nayak (16 November 2021). "Will Lead to Promotion Backlogs: Bureaucrats on Centre Allowing Extension of CBI, ED Chiefs' Term". News18. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ↑ "PRESIDENT'S POLICE MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2022.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ as Chakravarty served from 1986 to 2020
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