Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey on Thursday slammed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) decision to 'forcibly quarantine' IPS officer Vinay Tiwari, who reached Mumbai from Patna on August 2 to probe a case related to the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
He said that Patna City Superintendent of Police Tiwari has been home quarantined by BMC in order to stop the Bihar police from probing Sushant's case and Tiwari has been put in 'house arrest' and not in-home quarantine.
Thousands of millions of people are coming to Mumbai daily from different areas of the country and they are not kept in-home quarantine, alleged DGP. a
Reportedly, the IPS mess was officially sought for the stay of Tiwari but the senior IPS officer was not provided this facility and when Tiwari himself arranged a guesthouse then he was taken by BMC officials for home quarantine.
It is learned that the Bihar government has also been made aware of this development.
Tiwari will monitor the investigation in Sushant's case from the guest house until the further decision of the Bihar government. Surprisingly, on July 27, when a team of Bihar police went to Mumbai for probe in this case no one from that team was home quarantined but the BMC swung into action as soon as Tiwari reached Mumbai.
Shiv Sena has been ruling BMC for more than 25 years and Shiv Sena is currently in power in Maharashtra in alliance with NCP and Congress.
It is to be noted that Tiwari is leading a Bihar Police team which is in Mumbai to investigate an "abetment to suicide" case on the basis of an FIR filed by Sushant's father KK Singh in Patna. In his FIR, Sushant's father has named actress Rhea Chakraborty and her family members as accused.
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