Quarantined Patna SP returns from Mumbai

Patna: The IPS officer from Bihar, Vinay Tiwari, whose quarantine in Mumbai had sparked a war of words between Bihar and Maharashtra governments, returned to Patna late Friday evening after being released by the Mumbai civic authorities earlier in the day.

Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey took to Twitter to thank the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for exempting the Patna SP (central) from the 14-day quarantine. In his tweet, the DGP mentioned how the state police had to write two letters to the BMC commissioner before the request was granted and that too only after the Supreme Court’s adverse oral observations on Tiwari’s quarantine.

The IPS officer was allegedly forcibly quarantined on Sunday, within eight hours of his landing in Mumbai to coordinate with the Mumbai police in the Sushant Singh Rajput case.

The IPS officer boarded a flight to Patna from Mumbai via Hyderabad on Friday.

The BMC had written a letter to ADG (headquarters) Jitendra Kumar on Thursday giving the nod to exempt Tiwari under the clause that his stay was of less than seven days. TNN