CP meets guv over Lok Bhawan security breach

Bhubaneswar: Police commissioner S Dev Datta Singh on Saturday called on Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati at Lok Bhawan in view of the recent alleged security breach on the campus of the highest constitutional body of the state.

Officials said the governor, while discussing the upgradation of surveillance and fool-proof security system on the premises, expressed displeasure over the city police’s existing arrangement. Lok Bhawan’s interior and exterior security apparatus lies with the state police, officials said.

“In the wake of an alleged unauthorised entry by two IRS officers into Lok Bhawan, city police commissioner S Dev Datta Singh on Saturday met Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati to review security and discussed upgrading surveillance with new-age technology and additional manpower at the state’s high-security campus,” governor’s official X handle read.

Governor’s another social media post read that the security of Lok Bhawan Estate requires use of new-age technology and adequate manpower for seamless management of programme and protocol.

The top city cop was summoned to the Governor House a day after the latter formed a four-member high-level committee to investigate allegations of misconduct by its officers against two IRS officers during their visit to Lok Bhawan. The committee will hear both sides and submit a report to the governor.

On Thursday, D Sudhakar Rao, principal chief commissioner of income tax in Odisha, lodged a strong written complaint with governor’s secretariat alleging that his officers, Manish Kumar and Satya Prakash Mishra, were forcibly removed from Lok Bhawan in a police van and were taken to Capital police station. The matter is now under investigation even as preliminary reports revealed that both Mishra and Kumar didn’t have a pass for the Lok Bhawan entry.


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