Calcutta’s new police chief, Manoj Verma, went to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Thursday, less than 48 hours after taking charge. Verma went straight to the emergency building, which houses on the third floor the seminar hall of the chest medicine department where the 31-year-old junior doctor was found raped and murdered on August 9.

New Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma is a Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1998 batch who until yesterday served as the Additional Director General (ADGP) and Inspector-General of Police (Law and Order) of West Bengal Police.

The West Bengal government on Tuesday appointed senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Manoj Verma as the new Kolkata Police Commissioner. This decision was made in response to demands from protesting junior doctors for the removal of his predecessor,

Manoj Kumar Verma, a 1998-batch IPS officer renowned for his crisis management skills, has assumed the role of Kolkata Police commissioner. This transition follows Vineet Goyal's removal due to criticism over his handling of the RG Kar rape-murder case.