Maharashtra: Police commissioner transferred for instructing that bhajans should not be played on loudspeakers during azan

Two days back, Nashik Commissioner of Police (Commissioner) Deepak Pandey had issued a directive that anyone within a radius of 100 meters of the mosque, 15 minutes before and 15 minutes after the call for azaan, should not be allowed to play bhajans or songs on loudspeakers. will not be allowed. He has been transferred from his post just two days after the directions were issued.

Let us inform that Pandey had issued instructions in this regard only on 18 April (Monday). During this time, he had also directed the religious places of the city to get permission for the use of loudspeakers before May 3. He had said that those religious places who do not do this, legal action will be taken against them, in which they can possibly be taken into custody by the police. The directive said that every church, temple, gurudwara or mosque will have to obtain permission for the use of loudspeakers by filing an application in the Nashik Police Commissioner’s office.

Pandey’s order came in response to an ultimatum given by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray to the Maharashtra government, asking the Maharashtra government to remove the loudspeakers outside mosques by May 3. rings. He had threatened that if this did not happen, he would play Hanuman Chalisa on the loudspeaker. Pandey’s new appointment has been made as Special Inspector General (Department of Prevention of Atrocities on Women), which is seen as a sideline posting.

Pandey’s transfer is also being linked to a letter he wrote to the Director General of Police (DGP) of Maharashtra earlier this month, in which he accused the revenue officials of harassing citizens and working in tandem with the state’s land mafia. was accused of doing. State Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat had criticized Pandey for making the allegation in the media.

However, in the letter, Pandey had demanded that the powers of revenue officers and executive magistrates be transferred to the police. In his letter, he had called the revenue officers ‘RDX’ (an explosive substance) and the executive magistrate as ‘detonator’. In this regard, the Maharashtra cabinet had expressed dissatisfaction with Pandey’s language. Jayant Naiknavare, Deputy Inspector General of Police (VIP Security), will now be the Nashik Police Commissioner in place of Pandey.

In a major reshuffle, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday promoted or transferred around 40 senior police officers, including Deepak Pandey. Transfers and promotions were announced in several official orders. At the same time, a day after making a major reshuffle in the police force, the Maharashtra Home Department on Thursday banned the promotion and transfers of five Indian Police Service (IPS) officers.

Let us tell you that there is a Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra, in which the Home Department is with the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).