Devdas Bhattacharya

Devdas Bhattacharya is a Bangladeshi police officer who served as additional inspector general (additional IGP) of the Bangladesh Police and the chief of the Bangladesh Railway Police. He is the former deputy inspector general (DIG) of the Mymensingh Range and the Rangpur Range of the Bangladesh Police.

Career Bhattacharya served in the Criminal Investigation Department in 2001. During the 2001 to 2006 Bangladesh Nationalist Party rule, the government discriminated against police officers from Faridpur District, Gopalganj District, and religious minority communities, as they were viewed as being loyal to the opposition Awami League.

Bhattacharya was the superintendent of police of Bandarban District in 2014. He inaugurated a school by the JAAGO Foundation along with Brigadier General Nakib Ahmed Chowdhury and Bohmong King U Chaw Prue Choudhury. He announced that the police have implemented the government decision to impose restrictions on the movement of foreigners in Bandarban District.

In June 2016, Bhattacharya was the additional commissioner (crime and operation) of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police. He supervised the investigation into the murder of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of Babul Akter, superintendent of police, after she was killed in Chittagong. He detained a Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal, the student front of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in March from the premises of the Jatiya Press Club. In July 2018, Bhattacharya was the additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. He saw the arrest of nine fake members of the Detective Branch. His team arrested a leader of the 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement. A man, Aslam, died in the custody of the Detective Branch under his command.

In September 2020, Bhattacharya was the deputy inspector general of the Rangpur Range. The Upazila Nirbahi Officer Wahida Khanam of Ghoraghat Upazila was attacked, and Bhattacharya commanded the police force in the region that investigated the incident. He was the additional commissioner of the Detective Branch at the time.