The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official who was injured in indiscriminate firing by a colleague inside Kolkata’s Indian M♔useum was discharged from a hospital on S🔯unday, an official of the medical establishment said.
A day after the fratricidal incident, there was no dis💛cernible decline in the number of visitors to the country’s oldest and largest museum, the authorities claimed.
An Assistant Commandant rank officer of the force, Suvir Ghosജh, suffered minor bullet injuries in the firing on Saturday evening while assistant sub-inspector Ranjit Sarangi was killed.
Ghosh 𝐆was released from the state-run SSKM Hospital here during the day, an official said.
CISF Head constable𓆉 A K Mishra was accused of firing from an AK 47 r🐲ifle inside the barrack attached to the over 200-year-old museum located in Park Street area in heart of the city.
Mishr🔯a has alleged that he was subjecte🦋d to "harassment" by a superior officer for over two months leading to the incident.
Security was t🧔ightened in the 🗹Indian Museum a day after the firing.
A senior museum official said that the CISF is mainly entrusted wit♊h the task of guarding the entry and exit gates and monitoring the compound through CCTV cameras and patrolling, while the gallery showing exhibits is manned by the staff of the facility.
To a question, the official said decisions about th💯e deployment of armed CISF personnel are༒ not taken by the museum authorities but by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
The CISF has highly compet🌱ent personnel who take every step in the interest of the visitors as per the directives of the MHA, the official said.
Meanwhile, muꦡseum Director A D Choudhury replied in the negative when asked if the visitor count has declined on Sunday in the wake of the previous day's incident.
“The volume of visitors seems to be more or less the same as it was on last Sunday or prev🧜ious weekends,” he s𓄧aid.
Founded in 1814, Indian Museum is an autonomous organisation under the administrative control o𓃲f the Union Ministry of Culture.
The CISF has been in🐎 charge of security at the museum sin𓂃ce December 2019.
(With PTI inputs)
