India, June 14 -- Two senior police officers - the sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) of Maheshtala and the inspector-in-charge (IC) of Rabindranagar police station - were transferred on Saturday in what police officers described as a routine reshuffle.

This comes in the background of a clash that broke out between two groups over an illegal construction in the Rabindranagar police station area and adjacent areas of Nadial on June 11. The trouble erupted on Wednesday afternoon after an attempt to plant Tulsi saplings in front of a temple on a pavement where a Muslim fruit seller used to run his shop.

SDPO Kamrujjaman Molla was transferred to the state armed police as the assistant commandant of the third battalion, while IC Mukul Mia ...