India, May 31 -- The state home department on Friday transferred Jalinder Supekar, special inspector-general of police (jail headquarters) as deputy commandant-general, Home Guards, Mumbai. On Thursday, the state government had relieved Supekar of additional charge as deputy inspector-general of the Nashik, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Nagpur divisions of the jail department. Supekar's original posting was IG (headquarters) of the jails department.

Supekar has been accused of attempting to protect the accused in the Vaishnavi Hagawane dowry harassment-suicide case. He is the uncle of Vaishnavi's husband, Shashank. Vaishnavi, daughter-in-law of expelled Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Rajendra Hagawane, died by suicide on May 16 ...