On Tuesday morning the new Superintendent of Police, an IPS officer of 2003 batch, Akhilesh Kumar Jha, took over the charge from outgoing SP Manoj Kaushik. Jha is the 53rd SP of Hazaribagh district.
New SP arrived in his office at 10 a.m. sharp, but had to wait for Manoj Kaushik for taking charge. Outgoing SP Manoj Kaushik first welcomed the new SP Akhilesh Jha in the chamber and then formality of handing and taking over of charge was completed.
After taking charge SP Akhilesh Jha said that maintaining the law and order situation in the district will be his priority. Talking to the newsmen he said that he had worked in North range earlier as Chatra SP so he knows Hazaribagh well. He also gave an account of his postings from 2003 to the recent one.
When asked about the prominent issue of the recent days in the state SP Jha said that CID is now looking into MlA Yogendra Sao case. The record of CID in previous years is very good and it can be hoped that the CID team will bring out the truth. Since the matter is subjudice so he denied saying anything more on this topic.
Talking about the illegal mining and transportation of coal and other items he said that he will do his best to stop it. When asked about the involvement of policemen in these businesses as reported by some IGs and DIGs earlier, Jha said that it is unfortunate that policemen are involved in it and he will look into it.
SP Akhilesh Jha made it clear that the good things started by outgoing and previous SPs of Hazaribagh will go on as usual. He specially mentioned about the efforts made by outgoing SP Manoj Kaushik to bring back the traffic system on track and involvement of cops in activities like cleanliness campaign.