India, April 29 -- Uttar Pradesh-cadre IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma, warning potential troublemakers of "appropriate treatment" if they try to disrupt Wednesday's polling in West Bengal, created a fresh political dust-up with the TMC accusing the ECI-appointed police observer of overstepping his role and "intimidating" party workers.

With over a hundred-armed central paramilitary troops, an armoured vehicle, and a list of potential "trouble makers" in his pocket, the 2011-batch IPS combed the South 24 Parganas district's Falta Assembly seat under TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's backyard of Diamond Harbour parliamentary constituency for two days on a trot.

The Prayagraj ACP, who earned the moniker 'Singham' for his crackdown on criminals, ...