Two days after the horrific fire at a gaming zone in Rajkot that killed 27 people, the Gujarat government on Monday transferred city police commissioner Raju Bhargava. He will be replaced by special commissioner from Ahmedabad Brijesh kumar Jha.
Besides Bhargava, additional commissioner of police Vidhi Choudhary and deputy commissioner of police (Zone 2) Sudhirkumar Desai have also been moved out.
Former deputy inspector general for the Kutchh-Bhuj (West) zone Mahendra Bagria will take charge as the additional commissioner while former superintendent of Vadodara's central prison Jagdish Bangwara has been assigned the role of DCP.
Bhargava, Choudhary and Desai have not been given a new post.
Meanwhile, the police on Monday arrested one of the partners of the ill-fated game zone. The police have registered an FIR against six partners of the TRP game zone on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and had earlier arrested two persons in connection with the incident.
"The Rajkot police have arrested Rahul Rathod, one of the partners in the Raceway Enterprise, which operated the game zone. He is the third accused arrested in the case," said Rajkot Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime, Parthrajsinh Gohil.
The Rajkot taluka police have booked Dhaval Corporation's proprietor, Dhaval Thakkar, and Raceway Enterprise partners Ashoksinh Jadeja, Kiritsinh Jadeja, Prakashchand Hiran, Yuvrajsinh Solanki and Rahul Rathod in the case.
On Sunday, the police arrested one of the partners, Yuvrajsinh Solanki, and the entertainment facility's manager, Nitin Jain.
