Calcutta, July 25: Twelve constables of Calcutta police were today suspended on disciplinary grounds for refusing to go for poll duty to North Dinajpur saying the number of buses sent to transport their team of 180 personnel was inadequate.

“These 12 constables finally did not go to North Dinajpur. They were all drunk and misbehaved with their superiors,” a senior officer said at the police headquarters in Lalbazar.

The special additional commissioner of police (headquarters), Jawed Shamim, said: “We have suspended all 12 constables for indiscipline.”

Around 180 Calcutta police personnel had on Tuesday blocked a road in Nadia’s Krishnagar for an hour, refusing to board the three buses sent to take them to North Dinajpur for the panchayat elections today. The policemen, who had completed their poll duties in Nadia the day before, lifted the blockade after the district police arranged for two additional buses.

The 12 were said to have led the protest and refused to board the buses as the others left for North Dinajpur.