Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which has begun probing the harassment of judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in West Bengal’s Malda district, will focus in its first preliminary report on whether the incident was driven by spontaneous public anger or was a pre-planned attempt to derail the ongoing judicial adjudication process.The agency’s initial findings, to be submitted to the Supreme Court next week, sources say, will focus on whether the incident …
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Dakshin Dinajpur (West Bengal), April 3 (IANS) Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar, on Friday, put forward his apprehension on the arrest of AIMIM leader Mofakkarul Islam by the West Bengal Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for allegedly being the mastermind behind the harassment of judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in Malda district. Alleging Islam’s connection with the Trinamool Congress, he accused the ruling party of trying to save him. Mofakkarul Islam was arre…
Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes to power in the poll-bound state, its division through the Assembly constituency rearrangement will be inevitable.”The BJP is plotting to divide West Bengal by rearranging Assembly seats. It has been planned to create a separate state with some areas from Bihar and some for West Bengal. They (BJP) will be able to do that only if they come to power. So we have to defeat…
Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) With the National Investigation Agency (NIA) starting a probe into the case of harassment of judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in West Bengal’s Malda on the night of April 1, the total arrests in the case made by the state police till Friday afternoon have increased to 33.Confirming the number of arrests, the Additional Director General (North Bengal), K. Jayaraman, told media persons that the police have registered a total of 19 cases, both in the matter of the…
Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) The probe team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), entrusted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to investigate the case of harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers in minority-dominated Malda district in West Bengal, will reach Kaliachak later in the day and will first talk to the affected officers.At the time the report was filed, the NIA had yet to specify either the details of the probe team or their next course of investigation in the matter. …
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed charges against two accused, including Pakistani gangster Shehzad Bhatti, in connection with last year’s grenade attack at YouTuber Roger Sandhu’s house in Jalandhar, Punjab, an official said on Thursday. The NIA, which took over the case from the Punjab Police in December 2025, has named Shehzad as an absconder in the supplementary chargesheet filed before a special court.A total of 10 accused have so far been arres…
Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday night decided to hand over the probe into the harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in minority-dominated Malda district to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and instead entrusted the investigation to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).Earlier, on Thursday evening, information from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, had indicated that the CBI would probe t…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Acting on the directions of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has written to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) requesting it to conduct an inquiry into the recent incident in West Bengal’s Malda district where judicial officers deputed for electoral roll revision work were allegedly gheraoed and attacked.In a communication addressed to the Director General of the NIA, the poll panel referred to the apex court’s order passed in a suo mot…
Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) A total of 18 persons, including an All India Secular Front (AISF) candidate from the Mothabari Assembly constituency in minority-dominated Malda district of West Bengal, Maulana Shahjan Ali, have been arrested till Thursday afternoon in connection with the harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in the same district on Wednesday night.All of them were produced before a district court in Malda on Thursday. However, while being presented in court, S…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Janata Dal-United MP Sanjay Kumar Jha, on Thursday, criticised the West Bengal government following the alleged ‘gherao’ of seven judicial officers involved in the SIR process in poll-bound West Bengal. He said the incident could create a climate of fear among voters and called for strict action in line with the Supreme Court’s observations. The remarks come after seven judicial officers were allegedly gheraoed for nearly nine hours in Malda district.The Supreme Court h…