New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a petition before the Supreme Court alleging that its simultaneous raid and search operations on Thursday at the office of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of its co-founder, Pratik Jain, were obstructed by the West Bengal government and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Seeking urgent judicial intervention in the matter, the Central anti-money laundering agency has claimed that its officials faced re…
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Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) Explaining the logic behind not accepting domicile certificates issued by the West Bengal government as identity documents, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said papers issued for specific purposes cannot be used for establishing voting rights.Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that one of the purposes of the domicile certificates is to give an additional residency proof in a state for those citizens of the state who are serv…
Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought a declaration from West Bengal government employees confirming that they are not duplicate voters, that is, voters having their names in the voters’ list at two places.The declaration will have to be given in specific formats provided by the poll panel. At the same time, it has also made it clear that if, in any case, any state government employee has his or her name in two places, it would be his or her responsibility to …
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 3 (IANS) A purported video of suspended Trinamool Congress legislator from the Bharatpur Assembly, Humayun Kabir, alleging rampant corruption in ‘Swasthya Sathi’, the West Bengal government’s health insurance scheme, has gone viral on social media.In the video, Kabir was heard claiming that under this scheme, private hospitals and nursing homes were inflating hospital bills of Rs 5,000 ten times to Rs 50,000 and then routing the bills through the State Health Department.He also alle…
Kolkata, Jan 1 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has clarified that Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates issued by the West Bengal government after 2010 — earlier scrapped by the Calcutta High Court — will not be treated as valid supporting identity documents during the ongoing hearing sessions on claims and objections to the draft electoral roll in the state.These hearings form the second stage of the three-phase Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters’ list in West Be…
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates issued by the West Bengal government after 2010, which were scrapped earlier by the high court, as supporting documents for the second phase of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state. Last week, the West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), approached the Calcutta High Court’s single…
Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the chaos during football legend Lionel Messi’s event in Kolkata held last week, has prevented the transfer of ticket sales money from the Yuba Bharati Krirangan to the account of the main organiser Satadru Dutta. At the same time, numerous documents related to Messi’s event have been recovered from Dutta’s house in Hooghly district’s Rishra, police sources said.It is also reported that Rs 22 crore have been seized from Dutta’s …