86 policemen including 65 officers from Mumbai Crime Branch transferred

There has been uproar over the 100-crore recovery case in Mumbai, in the same sequence, 86 officers and employees of Mumbai Police were transferred late on Tuesday night. In which 65 officers belong to the Crime Branch


After the matter of recovery of 100 crores every month, there was a lot of excitement in Maharashtra on Tuesday too. While the ruling party was engaged in damaging control to protect itself, the opposition was also trying to extract new arrows from its quiver. Late in the night, 86 officers and employees of Mumbai Police were transferred. The maximum number of 65 officers were removed from the crime branch. They had stayed in the Crime Branch for years. Among those transferred include Riyazuddin Kazi of Sachin Vaze. For the first time in such a large number of transfers in the history of Mumbai Police.

On Tuesday evening, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh met Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Since then, there were speculations that a large-scale cleanliness drive would be carried out in the police department. A few hours later, the list of 86 officers and staff transfers was released. The maximum number of 65 people have been removed from the crime branch. Some of these officers are also those who once played a role in the elimination of big mafias and smugglers. All of them had stayed in the crime branch for many years. Sachin Vaze's partner Riyazuddin also missed out on this cleanliness drive. The NIA has questioned him several times in the Antilia Case.

Today, the BJP delegation will meet the Governor, a delegation of BJP leaders will meet Governor BS Koshyari on Wednesday along with Devendra Fadnavis and state unit chief Chandrakant Patil amidst the chaos in Maharashtra. A senior BJP leader said that the state has become completely directionless at this time. We will demand from the Governor that he should call a report from the Chief Secretary on the situation in the state. We will meet the Governor at nine thirty in the morning. After the opening of the remarkable Sachin Vaze scandal, the main opposition BJP is not leaving any chance to surround the Uddhav government.

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