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New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The Election Commission on Thursday handed over the probe into the gherao of judicial officers adjudicating cases of Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal's Malda to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). A spokesperson of the poll authority said an NIA team would be in the poll-bound state on Friday. The Supreme Court Thursday slammed the West Bengal administration for its "complete failure" and inaction over the "deplorable" gherao and attack on seven judicial of ...Read More >
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday blamed Union home minister Amit Shah for the hostage-taking of judicial officers during protests in West Bengal's Malda against voter deletion as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), and demanded his resignation. She claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wanted to derail the April 23-29 assembly elections and impose President's rule. "Amit Shah entirely did it...the entire conspiracy... using the ECI [Election Commission of India]. He has t ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday came down heavily on the West Bengal administration for its "complete failure" and inaction over the "highly deplorable" gherao and attack on seven judicial officers in Malda district during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The court ordered an independent probe by the CBI or NIA and directed deployment of Central forces at all locations where objections to exclusion from electoral rolls are being adjudicated by appellate tribunals ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) The Election Commission of India on Thursday handed over the probe into the gherao of the seven judicial officers in West Bengal's Malda district to the NIA, following a Supreme Court directive. Observing that West Bengal was the "most polarised state", the Supreme Court delivered a stinging indictment of the state administration after seven judicial officers engaged in SIR exercise were held hostage by protesters in Malda district and directed a CBI or NIA probe into the i ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) Police on Thursday arrested at least 17 people, including a poll candidate, for their alleged involvement in the gherao of seven judicial officials in West Bengal's Malda district over the deletion of names from electoral rolls, a senior officer said. Indian Secular Front (ISF) candidate Maulana Shahjahan Ali and 16 others were arrested and produced before a district court, he said, adding that they were remanded to 10 days of police custody. ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) Police on Thursday arrested at least 17 people, including a poll candidate, for their alleged involvement in the gherao of seven judicial officials in West Bengal's Malda district over the deletion of names from electoral rolls, a senior officer said. Indian Secular Front (ISF) candidate Maulana Shahjahan Ali and 16 others were arrested and produced before a district court, he said, adding that they were remanded to 10 days of police custody. "These people were involved in ...Read More >
Kolkata, April 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday evening handed 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). Earlier in the day, a division bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Surya Kant, strongly denounced the incident, describing it as evidence of a complete law and order failure in West Bengal, and directed that the matter ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) Police on Thursday registered an FIR against several people, including two TMC councillors, for allegedly assembling unlawfully and defying police instructions near the state election office here, a senior officer said. "An FIR has been lodged against multiple people for unlawful assembly and disobedience of police directions," a senior officer said. The complaint names six prominent individuals, including Ward 36 councillor Sachin Singh and Ward 32 councillor Shanti Ranja ...Read More >
Anti-SIR protests in West Bengal. Pictures: Sourced by our correspondent. Nearly 24 hours after seven court-appointed judicial officers, including three women, were gheraoed and held hostage in Malda, Bengal Police arrested Maulana Shahjahan Ali, the Indian Secular Front's candidate for the Mothabari Assembly constituency, along with 17 others. The accused have been remanded to 10 days' police custody. Security forces rescued the seven judicial officers after protesters gheraoed them for seve ...Read More >
New Delhi/Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) Observing that West Bengal was the "most polarised state", the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a stinging indictment of the state administration after seven judicial officers engaged in SIR exercise were held hostage by protesters in Malda district and directed a CBI or NIA probe into the incident. Slamming the administration for its "complete failure" and inaction over the "deplorable" gherao and attack on the officers during the Special Intensive Revision(SI ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday took serious exception to an incident in West Bengal's Malda district where judicial officers deputed for work relating to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were allegedly gheraoed and attacked, observing that it was a "brazen attempt" to browbeat the judiciary and a direct challenge to the authority of the apex court. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Panchol ...Read More >
KOLKATA: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is reportedly dissatisfied with Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Nand, who is alleged to have failed to effectively handle demonstrations held in front of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office in the city. The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the opposition BJP have been holding repeated demonstrations since Monday outside the newly shifted office of the West Bengal CEO at the Shipping Corporation of India building on Strand Ro ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday alleged that the gherao of judicial officers and violence in Malda's Sujapur during the SIR exercise was "planned and organised by the TMC" under the leadership of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Addressing a press conference here, Adhikari claimed that the gherao of the judicial officers engaged in the SIR exercise in Malda was orchestrated from the "top level of the Trinamool Congress in Kolkata under the leadership of M ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (UNI) Terming West Bengal as the "most polarised State", the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to deploy central forces for the protection of judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, after seven judicial officers including three women judges were gheraoed for several hours in Malda district on Wednesday evening by a mob protesting against the deletion of their names from the electoral rolls. Pu ...Read More >
Kolkata: Just three weeks ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly election, protests over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls spread across several districts of the state on Thursday, April 2, with agitators blocking roads and highways over the deletion of names from poll lists. Protesters burned tyres, blocked roads and held silent marches in Malda, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and Purba Bardhaman, where voting will be held on April 23. A day earlier, seven judicia ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) Just three weeks ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly election, protests over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls spread across several districts of the state on Thursday, with agitators blocking roads and highways over the deletion of names from poll lists. Protesters burned tyres, blocked roads and held silent marches in Malda, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and Purba Bardhaman, where voting will be held on April 23. A day earlier, seven judicial o ...Read More >
Sagardighi (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): As West Bengal assembly elections near, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of conspiring to get the upcoming polls cancelled and impose President's rule in the state. Addressing a poll rally in Sagardighi, CM Banerjee claimed that the BJP was behind the incident in Malda where seven judicial officers were taken hostage by villagers on Wednesday. Also Read | Sikkim State Lottery Result Today 6 PM L ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) Terming West Bengal as the "most polarised state", the Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the administration for its "complete failure" and inaction over the "deplorable" gherao and attack on seven judicial officers in Malda district during the electoral rolls revision drive and directed a CBI or NIA probe besides deployment of central forces in the poll-bound state. In a scathing indictment, the top court said the incident "also exposes complete failure of the state admin ...Read More >
Sagardighi (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): As West Bengal assembly elections near, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of conspiring to get the upcoming polls cancelled and impose President's rule in the state. Addressing a poll rally in Sagardighi, CM Banerjee claimed that the BJP was behind the incident in Malda where seven judicial officers were taken hostage by villagers on Wednesday. "Administration is not under my control right now. L ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj on Thursday lashed out at the TMC over the gherao of seven judicial officers in West Bengal's Malda district during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, and asserted that SIR is not a political exercise but a constitutional necessity. Raising the issue during the Zero Hour in Lok Sabha, Swaraj said a very serious incident took place on Wednesday in which "democracy was crushed". In West Bengal's Malda area, people belonging to the ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday took serious note of the Malda hostage incident, where protesters gheraoed judicial officers for several hours in poll-bound West Bengal. The court also issued show-cause notices to the state's chief secretary and DGP.Trouble began on Wednesday afternoon in West Bengal's Malda district when a group of protesters gathered outside the Kaliachak 2 Block Development Office around 4pm. They were angry over the alleged removal of names from the voter list during th ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought a report from the West Bengal Police Director General of Police (DGP) for more than 10 hours, till they were rescued at midnight by CAPF, in connection with the incident in Malda's Kaliachak incident after seven judicial officers, including three women, were gheraoed by a huge number of voters whose names had been deleted in the Adjudication process, in Malda district's Kaliachak, for more than ten hours. Meanwhile, Supreme Court has sho ...Read More >
Kolkata: Claiming that the entire Bengal has been maligned due to Malda's Kaliachak incident, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata on Thursday urged the minority community to show calm and maintain restraint and asked them to "never touch the judges", in the backdrop of Malda's Kaliachak incident which was even criticized by Supreme Court. Meanwhile, protests over name deletion have erupted in Malda district's Old Malda areas, Englishbazar and Kaliachak. Calling the Malda's incident as a conspirac ...Read More >
Kolkata, April 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in Malda district was the result of a "joint conspiracy" by the BJP and the Election Commission of India aimed at paving the way for the imposition of President's Rule in the state. "It was the ECI's duty to ensure the protection of the judicial officers. With the model code of conduct being in force, I do not have any control ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) The BJP on Thursday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of instigating a mob to gherao for several hours seven judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Malda district over the deletion of names from the voters list. Security forces used batons to disperse the crowd and rescued the judicial officers, including three women, late at night on Wednesday. Alleging large-scale removal of names of voters in the SIR process, the prote ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday came down heavily on the West Bengal administration for their alleged inaction over the "deplorable" gherao and attack on seven judicial officers in Malda district during the SIR drive and ordered an independent probe by the CBI or NIA. In a scathing indictment of the state administration, the top court said the incident "also exposes complete failure of the state administration" and observed that West Bengal is the "most polarised state". T ...Read More >
New Delhi: State-owned Power Finance Corporation on Thursday said that its independent director Bhaskar Bhattacharya has resigned, citing plans to contest in the coming assembly polls in West Bengal. Bhattacharya was appointed on May 13, 2025, for one year by the Ministry of Power. Also Read: SIR protest: SC slams West Bengal govt over gherao of judicial officials, terms incident calculated "Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Independent Director on the Board of PFC, has tendered his resignation from the ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday came down heavily on the West Bengal government following the Malda incident, where seven judicial officers were held hostage for several hours. The top court described West Bengal as the most polarised state and said the judicial officers' gherao in Malda was a "preplanned, calculated and motivated" attempt to derail the electoral process. "Unfortunately in your state each one speaks political language and this is the most polarised state. You are forc ...Read More >
Kolkata: Seven judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) were rescued after protesters gheraoed them for several hours in West Bengal's Malda district over the deletion of names from the electoral rolls, officials said on Thursday. Security forces used batons to disperse the crowd and rescued the judicial officers, including three women, late at night on Wednesday. Also Read: West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: Baharampur poll battle hinges on religious divide, with Co ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday took serious note of seven judicial officials engaged in SIR exercise being taken "hostage" in West Bengal's Malda district, terming it deplorable and seeking responses from the state home secretary, DGP and other officials for their "inaction". A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi permitted the Election Commission to seek either CBI or NIA probe into the unfortunate incident. It said the inci ...Read More >
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