Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sufficient proof to establish in any court of law how its officials, along with accompanying Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel, faced hindrances and were even heckled by West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police officers during simultaneous raid and search operations at the Kolkata office of the India Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of I-PAC co-founder Pratik Jain, especially at Jain’s residence, on January 8…
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Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) Kolkata Police personnel on Saturday afternoon reached the residence of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) co-founder Pratik Jain to identity the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials and the accompanying Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) team present during Thursday’s raids by the central agency.The identification of the ED and CRPF officials and personnel engaged in Thursday’s raid and search operation is being done both from the footage of CCTV cameras install…
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) Kolkata Police have arrested five persons from different states for allegedly running a fraudulent scheme under the guise of facilitating loans through the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, officials said on Saturday.According to police, the arrests were made following a raid conducted by officers from the Purba Jadavpur police station on Friday night. The accused were arrested from a residential building in Nitai Nagar on the outskirts of Kolkata. The Police are investigating …
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) Kolkata Police have detained one person in connection with an email issuing a bomb threat to Governor C.V. Ananda Bose.The detained individual has been identified as Subrata Dutta, the police said late on Friday night. However, the officers at Hare Street police station in central Kolkata have not yet confirmed whether the 68-year-old man himself sent the email.The threatening message came to the attention of officials at Raj Bhavan on Thursday night. The email stated that…
Kolkata, Jan 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday registered a complaint at two police stations in Kolkata against the Enforcement Directorate’s simultaneous raid and search operations at the office of the India Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of its co-founder, Pratik Jain.According to sources, one complaint has been registered at Shakespeare Sarani Police Station under Kolkata Police, and the other at Electronic Complex Police Station.However, in b…
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday approached a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misusing her constitutional position by allegedly creating hindrances to the official duties of central agency officials during raid and search operations conducted earlier in the day.The ED alleged that while its teams were carrying out searches at the office of the India Political Action Committee (I-PAC) in the no…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) Two more people have been arrested in connection with the trafficking case in West Bengal’s Nadia, the police said on Wednesday.The duo was arrested from a cafe in Kalyani of Nadia district on Tuesday.The arrested individuals were identified as Sathi Biswas, alias Tina, and Tanmoy Das.According to sources at Kolkata Police headquarters, Sathi and Tanmoy were arrested while they were inside a cafe in Kalyani.Earlier, police had arrested six people in connection with this cas…
Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) The West Bengal Government on Monday announced a massive reshuffle in the state police ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections.According to a notification issued by the West Bengal Police Directorate, as many as 26 senior police officials, both of the Indian Police Service (IPS) and West Bengal Police Service (WBPS), have been shifted.However, the maximum of the transferred officials — 23 — are of the IPS, while the remaining are of the state police service.Three of the …
Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) Abbas Raja, a hired robber from Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested by detectives of the Anti-Dacoity Section of the Kolkata Police’s Detective Department in connection with the Rs 3 crore gold robbery in the Sinthee area of north Kolkata, police said on Monday.According to police, Abbas had fled to Dubai after the robbery and worked at a gold shop there for nearly one and a half months, posing as a law-abiding worker. However, after his tourist visa expired, he planned to r…
Kolkata, Jan 4 (IANS) The police have arrested the candidate who was to appear in the Kolkata Police recruitment examination for the post of Sub-Inspector but had sent a proxy. The police said on Sunday that the candidate, Abdul Khaleque, was arrested from Murshidabad district on Saturday and produced in court, which remanded him to police custody till January 8. The police had already arrested the proxy candidate, named Lakhai Ghosh, on December 30, 2025.According to police sources, Abdul Khale…