KOLKATA: IPS officer Rishikesh Meena was suspended on Saturday, a day after his wife - an IAS officer -filed a complaint against him for dowry torture.
Meena was recently posted as special superintendent-intelligence branch. His wife, Archana, is commissioner of backward classes welfare department.
Meena is accused under Sections 498A (non-bailable), 494, 497, and 307 and 34 of IPC and Section 23 of Juvenile Justice Act. Home department sources said the 2004-batch IPS officer was suspended after Hare Street police registered Archana's complaint.
Meena could not be contacted and sources at Lalbazar police HQ said he was not in his Minto Park residence on Saturday. Investigators said they were scanning all "related documents and medical reports" in the case.
Archana has complained that her husband, father-in-law and three sisters-in-law tortured her mentally and physically for dowry. Her four-month-old daughter, too, was not spared, she alleges. The IAS officer had filed a similar complaint in 2006 against her husband and in-laws when she was Hooghly ADM. She withdrew the complaint after the couple reached a settlement.
Meena started his career as additional SP of East Midnapore and was subsequently posted as Hooghly SDPO, deputy commissioner-3 Battalion and DC-wireless and Birbhum SP.
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