Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) Kolkata Police has taken a significant step to further enhance administrative preparedness ahead of the Assembly Elections. With the upcoming polls in view, several top-ranking police officials have been designated as Nodal Officers, said a senior officer of Kolkata Police on Tuesday.These appointments were announced through a directive issued by the Office of the Kolkata Police Commissioner, the official said.The order, released by the Administrative Branch (Force Secti…
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Kolkata, March 29 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday evening announced the transfer of a total of 184 inspector-ranking police officers in West Bengal amid the crucial two-phase Assembly polls in the state.Out of the 184 inspector-ranking officers transferred, 153 are attached to the West Bengal Police, while the remaining 31 are with the Kolkata Police.The majority of these officers are posted either as inspectors-in-charge or officers-in-charge of different police stations…
Kolkata, March 27 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday directed the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police to execute all pending non-bailable arrest warrants in the state within the next 10 days and take into custody all those against whom such warrants have been issued within that period.At the same time, the Commission also directed the state police and the city police to dispose of all poll-related criminal cases from the previous elections at the earliest.At the same time,…
Kolkata, March 27 (IANS) Investigations into the RG Kar elevator death case revealed that all three lift operators who were on duty on the night of March 20 when the incident took place were completely inebriated due to overconsumption of alcohol and were not in a position to attend to duties.Investigation revealed that the mishap in the hospital building that houses the trauma care centre could also have happened in any other lift, since the persons who were supposed to operate those elevators …
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday sought a detailed report from Kolkata Police on the murder of Trinamool Congress worker Rahul Dey (36), who was killed in a shootout between two rival groups while they were sitting and allegedly consuming alcohol on the rooftop of a residence at Bagha Jatin in the southern outskirts of Kolkata late Wednesday night.In the shootout, another individual, Jeet Mukherjee, sustained bullet injuries.The Commission has also soug…
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Investigations into the RG Kar elevator death revealed that the lift operators at the hospital had received no training on how to handle emergency situations and they had been appointed just one month prior to the tragic incident on March 20.Detectives from Kolkata Police uncovered this crucial information while interrogating the three lift operators arrested in connection with the fatal incident at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in which Arup Banerjee of Nager Baza…
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced its third list of 19 candidates for the forthcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, with the most prominent name being Ratna Debnath, fielded from the Panihati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district.Debnath is the mother of the junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata who was raped and murdered within the hospital premises in August 2024.She is …
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) Investigations into the elevator death at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata have revealed that the same lift had malfunctioned just seven days before the tragic incident.According to Kolkata Police, the elevator in the Trauma Care unit developed technical issues on March 13, prompting engineers to inspect and reportedly repair it the same day. However, on March 20, Arup Banerjee, a resident of Nager Bazar in north Kolkata, was crushed between the elevator an…
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) Investigations into the RG Kar elevator death case have revealed that the security guards were completely unaware that a key to the basement was kept in the office of the Superintendent of the hospital. As a result, what should have taken just three minutes to find the key ended up taking 33 minutes. Despite suffering fractures to his ribs and ruptures to his internal organs, Arup Banerjee had survived for nearly an hour. Investigators said on Tuesday that his life could…
Kolkata, March 22 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Police, along with Kolkata Police, recently arrested a man from Kolkata, 11 years after he allegedly kidnapped a minor girl from UP and settled down here with her. The police said on Sunday that the arrest was made recently, and the UP Police are in the process of taking the man to the said state in transit remand. According to the police, in 2015, a young man married a minor girl. He allegedly brought her here after abducting her from Khoda Colony in Uttar…