Suvendu Adhikari writes to President Murmu, HM Amit Shah to forfeit Police Medal conferred upon Kolkata Police Commissioner

Kolkata: In a fresh attack at the Kolkata Police, Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, wrote to President Droupadi Murmu requesting the withdrawal of the President’s Police Medal and the Police Medal awarded to Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal. The BJP leader alleged that Kolkata Police is inactive over vandalism at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 14 and doesn’t deserve the medal.

The BJP leader and Nandigram MLA also wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah with the same request. The vandalism is alleged to have been aimed at destroying evidence related to the rape-murder of a doctor, whose body was found in the hospital’s seminar hall on August 9.

Adhikari said Goyal, a 1994-batch IPS officer, received the President’s Police Medal in 2013 and the Police Medal in 2023. He alleged that Goyal failed to act as Kolkata Police Commissioner when the vandalism occurred on the night of August 14.