Kolkata, Apr 3 (Reporter) Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal to transfer IPS officer Saumya Roy, husband of a ruling TMC MLA, to a non-election-related posting during the election with immediate effect. IPS Roy was acting as the Deputy Commissioner of the South West (Behala) division of Kolkata Police. The poll panel asked the CEO to send the names of three eligible officers for replacing Roy, latest, by 3 pm on Wednesday. Roy is the husband of Arundhati Moitra popularly known as Lovely Maitra, an elected Trinamool Congress MLA of Sonarpur Dakshin. Before the Assembly elections in Bengal in 2021, the ECI had shifted Roy when they came across reports of him being the husband of Lovely Moitra who was contesting the Assembly polls on TMC’s ticket. The Election Commission of India said in its order on April 3 that IPS Roy should be transferred to a post that is not linked to the coming Lok Sabha polls Roy’s wife, Arundhuti Maitra, also an actor popularly known as Lovely Maitra, was elected to the Sonarpur South assembly seat in South 24 Parganas district in the 2021 state polls. Roy, who was the additional superintendent of police (rural) in Howrah district at that time, was transferred in a similar manner by EC after the Bharatiya Janata Party lodged a complaint...////...