Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) The police investigation into the recent wave of bomb threats targeting courts, post offices, and passport offices across West Bengal has revealed that the perpetrators utilised Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and foreign servers to conceal their identities. Investigators on Wednesday said that the digital trail behind the hoax bomb threats points to servers outside India. A senior intelligence officer with the West Bengal Police said that the mastermind behind the panic…
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Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Monday, questioned the justification by the policemen of Kolkata Police for offering protocol salutes to the former State Director General of Police (DGP), Rajeev Kumar, while he appeared for attending the meeting with full-bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) earlier in the day as a member of the Trinamool Congress delegation. Incidentally, former State DGP Kumar was also declared as “elected unopposed” to the R…
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) The Kolkata Police Commissioner recently directed the anti-rowdy officers of every police station in the city to submit a ‘rough register’ (a special diary or ledger) to their respective Deputy Commissioners of Police, containing the names and details of miscreants in their jurisdictions. The report was submitted to the Kolkata Police headquarters at Lalbazar on Monday, a senior police officer said.According to the Intelligence Department of Kolkata Police, the names …
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) Representatives of different state and central agencies faced the ire of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at a crucial meeting between the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) full bench and the nodal officers of different state and central agencies on the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal scheduled later this year.The ECI’s full bench, headed by the CEC, is currently on a two-day visit to West Bengal to review the progress of the judici…
Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) Amid hike in the price of the cooking fuel, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Centre, alleging that it is harassing common people.”We always try to be by people at all levels. On the other hand, the job of the Union government and the BJP is only to harass people. The way the gas price has been hiked will surely affect the lives of ordinary people. Today, the girls and women of West Bengal will take to the streets in protes…
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) Kolkata Police arrested 330 people on charges of indecent behaviour and drunkenness on the day of Dol Yatra, said the police on Wednesday.Strict security arrangements were made across the city since Tuesday morning to avoid any untoward incident. Police picketing was increased at various places.It is learnt that the arrests were made on the basis of specific complaints from different parts of the city, said sources in city police headquarters.Along with this, the police a…
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) An FIR against Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, was registered at a Kolkata police station on Wednesday, based on a complaint accusing him of making communally sensitive statements on the occasion of the Dol Yatra festival.Adhikari on Tuesday celebrated the festival with the monks, local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, and the voters of the south Kolkata’s Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency, where the sitting lawmaker is Chief Mi…
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) The National Commission for Women (NCW), on Tuesday, took suo motu cognisance of the alleged sexual harassment of a woman civic volunteer by a Officer-in-Charge of the Kolkata police station and asked the West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP), Peeyush Pandey, to file an action taken report regarding the incident within five days. In an X post, the NCW said, “National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognisance of a grave and disturbing news report… p…
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) The Kolkata Police have put in place elaborate security arrangements across the city for the twin festivals of Dol Yatra and Holi, to be celebrated on Tuesday and Wednesday.According to police, as many as 398 police pickets will be deployed across Kolkata on the day of Dol Yatra. Of these, 86 will be special pickets set up at key intersections and sensitive locations, including Khanna More, Park Circus Seven-Point Crossing, Shyambazar and other major junctions.Each of the…
Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) Kolkata Police have arrested a man for allegedly stabbing three persons in the Jorabagan area of north Kolkata following a dispute linked to a relationship, police said on Saturday.According to the police, a confrontation broke out between a young woman’s former boyfriend and her current partner. During the altercation, the latter allegedly stabbed the former boyfriend and two of his friends on a public road. All three injured persons were taken to hospital in a critical c…