Kolkata, July 25 -- An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, who was accused of shoving a desecrated idol of Goddess Kali into a prison van in October 2025, has been suspended, West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday.

He said that four other police officers in various police stations across the state, against whom allegations of atrocities, high-handedness and hurting religious sentiments had surfaced during the previous Trinamool Congress (TMC)-regime, were also suspended.

"An idol of Goddess Kali was desecrated during Kali Puja at Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas. Locals staged a protest as their religious sentiments were hurt. Koteswara Rao, the then superintendent of police of Sundarban police district resorted to la...