New Delhi/Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) Top officials of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) have finalised a robust, technology-driven security architecture for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections 2026 — Phase 1 on April 23 and Phase 2 on April 29, an official said on Sunday.The high-level meeting at Salt Lake on Saturday was attended by the Directors General (DGs) of the CRPF, BSF, CISF, SSB and ITBP, who focused on inter-agency synergy to ensure a free, fair and transparent election, t…
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Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) The officials of the Income Tax Department, heavily escorted by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), were on Friday conducting simultaneous raids and search operations at several locations linked to Trinamool Congress legislator Debasish Kumar.Kumar is also the Member-Mayor-in-Council (MMIC) of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (MMIC). The raids are being conducted at his residence and electoral camp office in South Kolkata in connection with an illegal land-grabbing …
Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday conducted a raid again at the residence of former West Bengal education minister and former Trinamool Congress secretary general, Partha Chatterjee, in south Kolkata. On Saturday morning, the ED reached Partha’s house in Naktala with a large contingent of central forces. It is believed that the former minister will be questioned again in the school teacher recruitment case before the Assembly elections. After getting bail, the…
Kolkata, March 30 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Monday, issued summons to the Trinamool Congress legislator from Rashbehari Assembly Constituency in South Kolkata and a Member-Mayor-in-Council (MMIC) of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (MMIC), Debasish Kumar, in connection with an illegal land grabbing case in West Bengal.At the time the report was filed, Kumar had already arrived at ED’s office at the central government office (CGO) complex at Salt Lake in the northern outskirts of…
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) A portion of a 150-year-old house on Park Street in central Kolkata collapsed on Tuesday morning, triggering alarm in the neighbourhood. No injuries were reported as the building was unoccupied at the time of the incident.However, the collapse of the building has left the local people in a state of panic.Residents said the structure had weakened after the earthquake that struck the city on February 27. According to locals, part of the roof gave way without warning. With M…
Kolkata, Jan 23 (IANS) Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director Rahul Navin on Friday sought details of the bureaucrats and police officers of the West Bengal government who accompanied Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee when she visited two places where ED officials were conducting raid and search operations in connection with the alleged involvement of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) in a coal smuggling case earlier this month.Navin, who has been in Kolkata on a three-day visit since Th…
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) Parallel hearings on three petitions and counter-petitions concerning the controversies surrounding the Enforcement Directorate’s raid and search operation last week at the Indian Political Action Committee office and its co-founder Pratik Jain’s residence are scheduled to be heard by Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh later on Wednesday.The raids were conducted at the I-PAC office in Salt Lake on the northern outskirts of Kolkata, and Ja…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has become more active in the investigation of the coal smuggling case. According to sources, several businessmen have been summoned again to the ED office for questioning as part of the investigation. Sources said on Tuesday that these businessmen have already been interrogated, and they will have to appear before the investigators again this week.The ED has recently become more proactive in the investigation of the coal smuggling case ori…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) After controversies over the raid and search operations by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC)’s office and residence of its co-founder Pratik Jain last week, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, on Monday, have now been deployed for security cover from the central probe agency’s office at the Central Government Office (CAG) complex at Salt Lake in Kolkata. As of now, personnel of a private security agency were re…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) Kolkata Police has started the process of making the neighbours of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) director Pratik Jain, witnesses in the investigation against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over the latter’s raid and search operations at Jain’s residence at Loudon Street in central Kolkata on January 8.Sources said on Monday that already, some of the neighbours have been summoned by the investigating team of the city police for questioning on their experie…