India, June 19 -- The Odisha government on Wednesday suspended Indian Police Service officer Dayal Gangwar for allegedly harassing slain Government Railway Police (GRP) constable Soumya Ranjan Swain, even as the suspension is not linked to the latter's May 7 lynching near Bhubaneswar. The action came after Swain's family accused Gangwar of harassing the constable.

Chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi ordered Gangwar's suspension weeks after he was removed as additional director general (ADG) and attached to the home department as an officer on special duty.

A mob allegedly tied Swain to a pole and assaulted him. His post-mortem report showed he died of severe blunt-force trauma that caused extensive internal bleeding in the brain.

Gangwar...