Kolkata, Feb 16 || The Election Commission of India had directed the office of the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Nandini Chakraborty, to immediately suspend seven more assistant electoral registration officers engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision in the state on charges of dereliction of duty.
To recall, earlier in August last year, the ECI had directed the state government to suspend and register FIRs against two electoral registration officers and two AEROs against whom charges of being involved in electoral rolls preparation malpractices were proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
The office of the West Bengal Chief Secretary also attracted the ire of the ECI for partially implementing the order by suspending those two EROs and two AEROs, but not registering FIRs against them.
Now, the ECI has directed the Chief Secretary’s office to suspend seven more AEROs involved with the revision exercise. Besides suspending these seven AEROs, the state government has also to initiate departmental disciplinary proceedings against them.
The seven AEROs whose suspensions have been directed by the ECI include Sefaur Rahaman from Samserganj Assembly Constituency in Murshidabad district, Nitish Das from Farakka in Murshidabad, Dalia Ray Choudhury from Maynaguri in Jalpaiguri, Murshid Alam from Suti in Murshidabad, Satyajit Das and Joydeep Kundu from Canning (Purba) in South 24 Parganas, and Debashis Biswas from Debra in West Midnapore.