KOLKATA: Former Kolkata Police commissioner Tushar Kanti Talukdar, whose four-year stint was marked by a number of significant events, passed away at a medical facility in south Kolkata on Tuesday following an extended kidney associated disorder. Talukdar was 85. The period of Talukdar, who functioned as the commissioner of cops from 1992 to 1996 throughout the erstwhile Left Front federal government, was marked by numerous events that left an enduring impression on Bengal politics. It was under his helm that polices had actually fired at a Youth Congress rally led by present primary minister Mamata Banerjee on July 21, 1993 eliminating 13 individuals. Previously, in the very same year, an ammo dump at mafia put on Rashid Khan’s location at Bowbazar took off, eliminating 69 individuals on March 16. It was the city’s very first brush with RDX. Talukdar, an alumnus of Jagabandhu Institution and RKM Vidyamandira, Belur, and an economics trainee at the Presidency College, was constantly an intense trainee who signed up with the IPS in 1962. He had actually retired in 1996 as Kolkata Police CP. Those near him discussed the Marxist impact on him – he was likewise an admirer of Jean Paul Sartre – since his trainee days at the Presidency University, then Presidency College, when he was doing active politics. They stated that he took pleasure in the self-confidence of the then primary minister Jyoti Basu, who waited Talukdar’s assertion that the cops had actually “done a great task” in preven
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