Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) The Election Commission has taken several steps to ensure free and peaceful Assembly elections in West Bengal, and amid these, Kolkata Police are preparing a list of the most notorious criminals. It was learnt on Tuesday that each police station has been instructed to identify the most notorious criminals who can cause unrest during the election. Before elections, the police prepare a list of ‘trouble mongers’, with each police station sending it to the city police headqu…
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Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has placed the Inspector-in-Charge (IC) of Naihati police station under the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal under suspension for allegedly carrying the Chairman of Naihati Municipality, a political leader, to the SDO office during the nomination process, an ECI insider said on Monday.The move by the ECI came after BJP leader Arjun Singh, a former Lok Sabha member from Barrackpore consti…
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) Kolkata Police on Monday evening sent a notice for interrogation to Trinamool Congress MLA Ratna Chatterjee, who is the party’s candidate this time as well, over an incident of vandalism at a local office of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Behala (Paschim) Assembly constituency in the southern outskirts of Kolkata. Earlier in the day, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against her at the local Parnasree Police Station under Behala (Paschim) Assembl…
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) The Kolkata police registered an FIR against a female member of the Trinamool Congress-backed BLO Rights Protection Committee for staging a protest outside the office of the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), officials said on Monday.A senior Kolkata Police officer confirmed that a notice has been served on the Booth Level Officer (BLO), Tanushree Modak Bhattacharya, directing her to appear at Hare Street police station within three days of receiving it. The FIR is unde…
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, has accused the Kolkata Police of deputing covert cops to shadow him during his ongoing campaign for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in South Kolkata, where he is pitted against Trinamool Congress candidate and Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee.The LoP has sent an email communiqué to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), where he has also named three police personnel, including an inspector…
Kolkata, April 5 (IANS) Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, Kolkata Police and Static Surveillance Team (SST) on Sunday seized a huge amount of unaccounted cash during a naka checking operation under the Netaji Nagar Police Station area. According to the police, the seizure was made at Plywood More on NSC Bose Road in the Tollygunge Assembly constituency in south Kolkata. A vehicle coming from the Alipore side was intercepted on suspicion. After searching the car, police officials recov…
Kolkata, April 5 (IANS) Ahead of the Assembly elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has transferred the Officers-in-Charge (OCs) of several police stations in Kolkata, said an official on Sunday.It has been learnt that Hirak Dalpati, in charge of Park Street police station, has been transferred to the Intelligence Department. Neelkanth Roy of the Detective Department of Lalbazar has been made the new OC of the police station.Raj Kumar Mishra, Additional OC of Shyampukur police statio…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday directed the suspension of four officers of Kolkata Police, including a deputy commissioner ranking officer, in relation to the tension near the convoy of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and West Bengal Assembly LoP Suvendu Adhikari on April 1. The convoy was approaching the Alipore Survey Building in South Kolkata, where Adhikari was supposed to file his nomination for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency.The four polic…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Saturday, wrote a letter to the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Manoj Kumar Agarwal, seeking removal of Police officers Shantanu Sinha Biswas (Kolkata Deputy Commissioner of Police), Bijitaswa Routh (Inspector-in-Charge), and Rahul Amin Ali Shah (Sub-Inspector) for their alleged partisan and compromised roles. “It has come to notice that Deputy Commissioner of Police Shantanu Sinha Biswas and Bijitaswa Routh (Inspector-in-Ch…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday directed the former commissioner of Kolkata Police, Supratim Sarkar, to go on deputation as police observer in Tamil Nadu, which is also going to polls like West Bengal later this month. However, Sarkar had pleaded to the Commission for relief from this deputation to Tamil Nadu on medical grounds, as confirmed by an insider from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal.Just a few days before the announ…