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  • Bengal school recruitment scam: Opposition criticizes Sayoni Ghosh for not appearing before ED

    Bengal school recruitment scam: Opposition criticizes Sayoni Ghosh for not appearing before ED

    Kolkata (IANS). The opposition in West Bengal has criticized Trinamool Youth Congress president and Bengali actress Sayoni Ghosh for not appearing before the ED for questioning on Wednesday. The central agency had called him for the second round of questioning in the multi-crore school recruitment scam.

    Opposition leaders are seeing this as a U-turn from their earlier commitments to extend full cooperation in the matter.

    Although state Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh claimed that actress-turned-politician Sayoni had informed the central agency about her inability to appear for questioning, but there was no official confirmation from the central agency about the same. Is.

    It is learned that Ghosh had left her residence this morning and till the filing of the report, there was no information about her whereabouts.

    According to senior CPI(M) leader and former party MLA Tanmay Bhattacharya, “She did not attend the second round on Wednesday morning. Secondly, he himself did not announce his decision not to join the inquiry and instead fielded Kunal Ghosh to do so.

    BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said that his prior engagements to participate in the election campaign cannot be an excuse to avoid questioning.

    He said, “So far it has not been said anywhere that he is an accused in the school recruitment case. The central agency is questioning several people for cross checking the information available in the case. If anyone claims that he is innocent, he should face the inquiry without any fear.

    Announcing Sayoni Ghosh’s non-arrival at the ED office on Wednesday morning through a video message, Kunal Ghosh questioned the timing of such summons by ED officials when full campaigning is underway for the rural civic body elections.

    Kunal Ghosh said, “Earlier our party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was called when he was busy with his public outreach program.”

  • Bengal Election Commission appoints two nodal officers for Panchayat elections

    Bengal Election Commission appoints two nodal officers for Panchayat elections

    Kolkata (IANS). The West Bengal State Election Commission (WBSEC) on Tuesday informed the Calcutta High Court that it has appointed two nodal officers for the panchayat elections to be held on Saturday.

    These two officers are Additional Director General (Law and Order) of West Bengal Police Javed Shamim and West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS)-cadre officer Amitabh Sengupta.

    The election body informed the court in the form of an affidavit.

    Shamim will play a key role in coordination with WBSEC regarding deployment of Central Armed Forces personnel for various election related work.

    At the same time, Sengupta will play the role of coordinator between the commission and the state government.

    On Monday, the WBSEC informed the court that the Union Home Ministry has confirmed the sending of 485 more companies of the Central Armed Forces for the upcoming elections.

    With this, the total strength of the central forces has increased to 822. 337 companies are already deployed.

  • ED to probe Sayoni Ghosh’s bank accounts in West Bengal school recruitment scam

    ED to probe Sayoni Ghosh’s bank accounts in West Bengal school recruitment scam

    Kolkata (IANS). The ED has asked actress-turned-politician Sayoni Ghosh to bring documents related to her bank accounts and properties for the second round of questioning on Wednesday in the West Bengal school recruitment case.

    Sources said Ghosh has been asked to bring the documents of the family members as well.

    The ED has not found any direct evidence against Sayoni Ghosh involved in the school recruitment case. The probe agency is probing whether the proceeds of the alleged scam were invested in any business or property by Ghosh or his family members.

    The sources further said that expelled Youth Trinamool Congress leader Kuntal Ghosh is accused of investing the proceeds of the scam in properties and businesses.

    Earlier, the ED had tracked the information of Kuntal Ghosh giving a loan of Rs 40 lakh to Tollywood actor Boney Sengupta to buy a vehicle.

    Sengupta confessed this to the central agency and later returned the money to the ED.

    Sources said that the ED wanted to find out whether Sayoni Ghosh was also involved in such cases.

    On June 30, Sayoni Ghosh was questioned by the ED for 11 hours. According to agency sources, Sayoni Ghosh gave many contradictory answers to the questions.

  • Fraud of 10 lakhs from businessman in the name of ticket booking

    Fraud of 10 lakhs from businessman in the name of ticket booking

    West Bengal. A Delhi businessman has been accused of duping a tour and travel businessman of Kolkata, West Bengal, of Rs 10 lakh for booking air tickets. The name of the victim is Mohammad Tanveer Alam. He is a resident of Mirza Ghalib Street area. After this incident, a complaint was lodged in the New Market police station of the metropolis. According to the police, Mohammad Tanveer Alam told in his complaint that a few months ago he was identified with a travel businessman from New Delhi.

    It is alleged that he had given Rs 10 lakh to that businessman for booking several air tickets. But the accused did not book the air tickets even after taking the money. Despite saying several times, neither the money was returned nor the air ticket was booked. After this, the victim came to know about the fraud and lodged a complaint about the incident at the New Market police station. After starting the investigation of the case, the police has started trying to reach the accused of Delhi.

    In West Bengal’s Kolkata, the police of Bidhan Nagar cybercrime station have arrested an accused from Burdwan in the case of cyber fraud of Rs 94,000 by claiming that a person’s credit card has been closed by pretending to be a bank officer. The name of the accused is Suresh Prasad. It is said that on November 5, 2022, Mitlal Chaurasia, a resident of Baguihati, lodged a complaint with Vidhannagar Cybercrime Police Station that he had been cyber cheated by calling himself from an unknown number, calling himself a bank officer. The victim says that he was tricked by saying that his credit card was closed.

  • Emergency landing of Mamata Banerjee’s helicopter

    Emergency landing of Mamata Banerjee’s helicopter

    Kolkata (IANS). The helicopter carrying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had to make an emergency landing at Army’s Sevak airbase near Siliguri soon after take off.

    The Chief Minister addressed a public rally at Jalpaiguri on Tuesday afternoon. Thereafter, the helicopter carrying his personal security officer and a scribe took off from Kranti helipad in Jalpaiguri to Bagdogra airport in Darjeeling district.

    The Chief Minister was to spend the night in Siliguri on Tuesday and take a flight from Bagdogra to Kolkata in the morning.

    Sources said soon after take-off, the chopper carrying the chief minister faced uncertain conditions due to overcast sky and strong wind accompanied by heavy rain.

    It is learned that the pilot had no clue when trying to find the right place to land the helicopter. The dense forest of Baikunthpur below added to the trouble.

    However, luckily at the same time the airbase of the armed forces came into their sight. He immediately contacted the airbase authorities and got the helicopter landed there. The landing was safe and none of the passengers were injured.

    Till the filing of the report, the Chief Minister’s convoy was going back to Bagdogra by road.

  • West Bengal Governor Bose summoned State Election Commissioner Rajeev Sinha

    West Bengal Governor Bose summoned State Election Commissioner Rajeev Sinha

    Kolkata (IANS). West Bengal Governor C.V. Anand Bose has called State Election Commissioner (SEC) Rajeev Sinha to Raj Bhavan again on Sunday. As per reports, he has been summoned to inquire about the measures taken to ensure free and fair elections for the three-tier panchayat polls in the state.

    Even before this, the Governor had summoned Sinha in this matter. However, at that time Sinha expressed his inability to attend the Governor’s House. Soon after, the governor refused to accept his joining letter and returned it to the state secretariat. Now it remains to be seen whether the State Election Commissions come forward or not.

    However, sources in the commission said Sinha is likely to appear at the Raj Bhavan on Sunday evening. On Saturday itself, the Governor had directed the police to immediately arrest and take action against the killer of Purulia-based Trinamool Congress leader Dhananjay Choubey.

    On June 22, the governor held the state election commissioner responsible for the bloodshed in the state over the upcoming elections for the three-tier panchayat system. Talking to reporters that day, the Governor had said that he appointed the State Election Commissioner. I expressed confidence in him that he would ensure free and fair elections. But I think the common people are disappointed. There was so much bloodshed.

    The governor’s remarks came in the wake of a strong remark by Calcutta High Court chief TS Sivagnanam on June 21, in which he advised the state election commission that he should step down if he is unable to perform his duty. .

    Justice Sivaganam had said that in that case the governor would appoint someone else. So far 10 people have died in election-related violence during the last 17 days since the election dates were announced on June 8. The panchayat elections are to be held on July 8 and the counting of votes will take place on July 11.

  • West Bengal Panchayat Polls: MHA To Deploy 337 Companies Of Central Forces

    West Bengal Panchayat Polls: MHA To Deploy 337 Companies Of Central Forces

    KOLKATA: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday night informed its decision to deploy 337 companies of central security forces in West Bengal for the upcoming panchayat polls in the state after the State Election Commission (SEC) made a requisition to MHA for 822 companies following a Calcutta High Court order.

    Earlier, on Wednesday, the Calcutta High Court had expressed its resentment to the SEC for making requisition of only 22 companies of paramilitary forces, although 825 companies had been deployed in the 2013 polls.

    The HC’s division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Uday Kumar directed that the SEC has to deploy a number of central forces, which should not be less than what was done in the 2013 panchayat elections.

    Delivering its order, the high court said that the State Election Commission has to, within a timeframe of 24 hours, submit its requisition for enough number of companies of central forces to be deployed through all the districts and that the number of such companies or battalion, which are to be requisitioned, should be not less in number than that of the forces which was requisitioned for the 2013 election.

    It also said that the number of companies has to be definitely more than the earlier number keeping in mind that the number of districts has increased and also the total electorate, which would have definitely increased between 2013 and 2023, in the last ten years.

    The court also opined that the deployment of such forces moved to the state from other states “to be in place on the date of polling will not yield the desired result”.

    The HC said that the State Election Commission has to carry out an independent assessment of the requirement in reference to the requisition of the number of such police forces from other states.

    The court also said that, as it has observed earlier, the assessment made by the SEC should be honest and it should be kept in mind that the State Election Commission is under constitutional obligation to ensure holding of free and fair elections and to ensure that the purity of the entire election process is preserved.

    The court had also said on Wednesday that the next hearing would be held on Friday.

    A series of violent incidents have been witnessed in West Bengal ever since the announcement of the panchayat polls on June 9.

    The panchayat elections in West Bengal will be held in a single phase across the state on July 8.

  • Adhir Ranjan requests party high command to stop Singhvi from representing Bengal government

    Adhir Ranjan requests party high command to stop Singhvi from representing Bengal government

    Kolkata (IANS) | State Congress President in West Bengal and Lok Sabha member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary has written to senior party leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi from his party high command in New Delhi to represent the state election commission and the government in the Supreme Court in the matter of deployment of central armed forces for the panchayat polls. Appealed to stop representing. The state government has filed a petition in the apex court challenging the decision of a division bench of the Calcutta High Court to deploy central forces across the state. Both the Congress and the BJP have filed caveats on this in the Supreme Court, so that there is no one-sided hearing of the matter.

    State Congress sources said Chowdhary has brought the matter to the notice of the party’s national president Mallikarjun Kharge and has requested him to ensure that Singhvi and other party leaders, who are country’s top lawyers, represent the state government in the court or Do not represent the State Election Commission.

    Singhvi had recently faced the ire of the West Bengal unit of the Congress for favoring the Trinamool Congress in the Supreme Court. Chowdhary had also called for a complete boycott of Singhvi.

    Chowdhary said Singhvi had accepted similar briefs for the Trinamool Congress in the Saradha chit fund and Narada video tape scam cases. At that time also as State Congress President I had clearly said that we do not want his presence in any party program in West Bengal and now I am saying it again. We are calling for a complete boycott of Singhvi.

    Addressing a party rally last week, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had made it clear that there was no question of the Trinamool Congress supporting the Congress in West Bengal, as the Congress had defeated the CPI(M) in the state. have joined hands with.

    –IANS

  • Z category security to AISF MLA Naushad Siddiqui

    Z category security to AISF MLA Naushad Siddiqui

    Kolkata (IANS) | In the backdrop of large-scale violence in West Bengal’s Bhangar over the nomination process for the upcoming panchayat elections, the Union Home Ministry has decided to provide Z-category security to the All India Secular Front’s (AISF) MLA from Bhangar and the lone party representative in the state. Have decided. On 16 June, Siddiqui wrote to the office of Union Home Minister Amit Shah fearing a threat to his life and sought central assistance for his security.

    The matter was referred to the office of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, who oversees matters relating to security allocation. Sources said the matter was also discussed with Pramanik, another minister of state for home affairs and the BJP MLA from Cooch Behar in West Bengal, whose convoy was attacked twice in the state during four months.

    After Pramanik confirmed the veracity of Siddiqui’s apprehension, the central government approved Z-category security. Under this system, Siddiqui will get the cover of 22 security personnel.

    Alleging a secret understanding between the AISF and the BJP, Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said Siddiqui concocted a drama of danger to life and the central government had fueled it. This proves the secret understanding between the two.

    Recently, while addressing a public meeting, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, without naming him, accused Siddiqui of secretly colluding with the BJP.

    –IANS

  • New controversy over the appointment of Panchayat elections to doctors in Bengal

    New controversy over the appointment of Panchayat elections to doctors in Bengal

    Kolkata (IANS) | A controversy erupted in West Bengal on Sunday over the Howrah district administration’s decision to assign election work to doctors in the upcoming panchayat polls. Some government doctors of Howrah district have been directed to join election duty.

    The Association of Health Services Doctors, West Bengal has written a letter to the State Election Commission expressing its objection on this.

    The association demanded to know how the district administration could allot them the work of presiding officer or polling officer. It said this is an unprecedented decision.

    Meanwhile, the Howrah district administration called it an error.

    Howrah Additional District Magistrate S. Pal said the instructions sent to the doctors would not be implemented.

    Panchayat elections in the state are to be held on July 8. The counting of votes will take place on July 11.

    –IANS