Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Thursday criticised the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the recent reshuffle of senior police officers in West Bengal, alleging that the poll body is acting “very whimsically” and that such functioning had never been witnessed before. His comments come after the ECI transferred more than one and a half dozen IPS officers in the state as part of a fresh administrative reshuffle ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. Th…
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Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) Two people have been arrested on the charges of illegally detaining two Bangladeshi citizens in the name of getting visas and extorting money in Kolkata, said the police on Tuesday. Officers of Technocity Police Station conducted a raid on a hotel and rescued two Bangladeshis on Monday.Two individuals, including a Bangladeshi citizen, have been arrested. The police have already started interrogating the two arrested.The connection of the arrested Bangladeshi citizen with t…
Kolkata, Feb 15 (IANS) Acting information received from confidential sources, West Bengal’s Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate has busted an illegal SIM box racket and arrested a person in connection with the case, police said on Sunday.Officers of the Commissionerate’s Intelligence Department raided flat number 5B on the fifth floor of a residential building in Hatiara in the Rajarhat area near Kolkata on Saturday and busted the ring.The items recovered by the team in this search include- 9 SIM…
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) A male passenger was arrested at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on Saturday for allegedly molesting a woman co-passenger onboard a Hanoi-Kolkata flight, police said.According to the complaint, the man, who hails from Bihar, kept touching a female passenger inappropriately as she was seated next to him.Police said the young woman boarded a private airline flight from Hanoi in Vietnam bound for Kolkata. When the plane was preparing to land in Kol…
Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) In a major reshuffle, the West Bengal government on Saturday issued transfer orders for 27 officers across the state police, including Kolkata. Among the significant changes, Murshidabad Superintendent of Police (SP) Sunny Raj was transferred. The move came hours after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over the probe into the recent violence in Beldanga.Dhritiman Sarkar has been appointed as the new SP of Murshidabad. Sarkar has earlier served in districts such …
Kolkata, Jan 30 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Friday named Peeyush Pandey as the successor of Rajeev Kumar as the Acting Director General of state police. Kumar is set to retire from service on Saturday.At the same time, the state government had also announced the replacement of the current Kolkata Police Commissioner.The new Kolkata Police Chief will be Suprateem Sarakr, who is currently the Additional Director General of Police (South Bengal).The current Kolkata Police Commissioner, Man…