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New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): 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. The NIA, which took over the case from the Punjab Police in December 2025, has named Bhatti as an absconder in the supplementary chargesheet filed before a special court. The second accused named in the chargesheet is Dipander Pratap Singh, ...Read More >
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CHANDIGARH, Apr 2: Security agencies investigating the blast outside the BJP office at Chandigarh yesterday are looking into the angle whether consignment of grenades had been supplied to Punjab from Jammu and Kashmir a couple of years back. Follow the Daily Excelsior channel on WhatsApp The explosion occurred around 5 pm yesterday when a suspected crude explosive device was hurled near the office. However, no casualties were reported, but the incident triggered panic in the area. Sources sai ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Taking strong exception to the attack on judicial officers complying with its order to adjudicate objections regarding exclusion from voter list in West Bengal's Malda district, Supreme Court on Thursday said there is breakdown of law and order in the state and issued show-cause notice to the chief secretary, DGP, district magistrate and SP to explain why action should not be taken against them. SC said it was a "deliberate and calculated" attempt to demoralise the judicial officers a ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Thursday handed over the investigation of West Bengal's Malda district to the NIA, where seven judicial officers, including three women, were held hostage by villagers on April 1. Following a Supreme Court order, CEC Kumar transferred the probe, with the NIA team set to arrive in West Bengal on Friday. The ECI, in a letter issued on April 2, referred to the top court's order and directed the NIA to probe the inciden ...Read More >
Arambag (West Bengal) [India], April 3 (ANI): BJP MP Biplab Kumar Deb on Thursday criticised West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, claiming that she disregards the Supreme Court, High Court, and law and order. Speaking on the Malda hostage crisis, Deb called it "very unfortunate" and attributed it to provocation by the TMC. "They don't understand the Supreme Court, nor the High Court, nor law and order, nor the dignity of the Chief Minister... The Election Commission is an independent body; it works ...Read More >
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Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday had distanced herself from the Malda hostage incident of judicial officers. Speaking at an election campaign, Mamata said that her government does not have any control on the administration. "I don't have any power, everything is taken away from me. I was not informed about anything. I don't know how the incident happened and who is responsible for this. The law and order are in the hands of the Election Commission and they listen to only Ami ...Read More >
Kolkata: Demanding the resignation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the Election Commission of India (ECI) had "completely failed" to maintain law and order, and described the gherao of seven judicial officers in Mothabari in Malda's Kaliachak block as a "conspiracy of Shah". She urged the minority community to remain calm and cautioned them to "never touch the judges", warning that they could face arrest by central agencies s ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): As the West Bengal Assembly polls near, the political temperature in the state has significantly risen, as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) accuse each other of manipulating the election process. As Union Home Minister Amit Shah reached West Bengal for election campaigning today, he called on people to vote fearlessly and remove the Trinamool Congress from power and "throw TMC in Bay of Bengal". Meanwhile, TMC has ac ...Read More >
New Delhi: 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 motu writ petition c ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): As the West Bengal Assembly polls near, the political temperature in the state has significantly risen, as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) accuse each other of manipulating the election process. As Union Home Minister Amit Shah reached West Bengal for election campaigning today, he called on people to vote fearlessly and remove the Trinamool Congress from power and "throw TMC in Bay of Bengal". Meanwhile, TMC has ac ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) The Election Commission has handed over the probe into the gherao of seven judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision exercise in West Bengal's Malda to the NIA as the incident plunged the state into fresh turmoil, with the TMC and the BJP blaming each other for it. While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the poll panel of fomenting unrest to facilitate President's rule in the poll-bound state, the BJP alleged the TMC ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 2 (PTI) A day after a blast outside the party's office here, on Thursday, Punjab BJP working president Ashwani Sharma slammed the AAP government over the "deteriorating" law and order situation in the border state, alleging its impact is now reaching the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Sharma blamed forces inimical to peace and brotherhood for the blast outside the party's Punjab headquarters. At least 10 teams of the Chandigarh Police were deployed at the party office. A polic ...Read More >
Malda: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has handed over the investigation into the shocking hostage crisis in West Bengal's Malda district to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). According to reports, a NIA team is expected to reach Malda on Friday as it initiates the probe into the incident. Earlier, tension erupted in West Bengal's Malda after seven SIR judicial officers were taken hostage by protesters for nearly 9 hours, prompting the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognizance. ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of the Supreme Court's directives, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday handed over the case involving protests in West Bengal's Malda district, where judicial officers involved in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work were reportedly held hostage, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). In a letter to the Director General of the NIA, the ECI said, "I am directed to request that the necessary inquiry/investigation into the matter be conducted and a p ...Read More >
Kolkata: 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 incident. In ...Read More >
Kolkata: There are already dozens of cases that central agencies are probing in West Bengal. One more was added to the list on Thursday, just three weeks before Assembly polls in the politically-charged state. This one is over a shocking incident in Malda, where seven judicial officers engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise-related work were held hostage by protesters a day earlier. Following the Supreme Court's intervention, the Election Commission of India (ECI) roped in the N ...Read More >
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, 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 >
Chandigarh: Punjab BJP working president Ashwani Sharma who visited the site of the blast outside the party office here on Thursday said that the BJP will not allow communal harmony in Punjab to be disturbed at any cost. It may be recalled that a low intensity blast had taken place outside the BJP office on Wednesday evening when a suspected crude explosive device was hurled near the party office. Addressing newspersons, Sharma referred to a series of grenade attacks which took place in the st ...Read More >
Chandigarh [India], April 2 (ANI): A day after a blast outside the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Chandigarh, a political row erupted with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Minister on Thursday accusing the BJP of an intelligence failure in the Union Territory, while the ruling party hit back, terming such incidents "condemnable" and warned of strict action against the perpetrators. An explosion took place outside the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Punjab's Chandigarh Sector 37 on Wedne ...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, 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 >
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 >
Malda: Protests against the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) process of electoral rolls intensified sharply across Malda district for the second day today, spreading from Sujapur and Mothabari to Old Malda and English Bazar. Demonstrators demanding inclusion of 'valid voters' in the electoral list clashed with the police, leaving a police vehicle driver seriously injured. Law enforcement resorted to lobbing tear gas shells to bring the situation under control. The unrest follows a dramatic esca ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The BJP on Thursday termed the gherao and attack on seven judicial officers in West Bengal's Malda district a "black spot" in the country's history, alleging "TMC goons" acted at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's behest to obstruct the SIR exercise and protect Rohingyas. The remarks came as the Supreme Court came down heavily on the West Bengal administration over its alleged inaction, describing the incident as "deplorable" and indicative of "complete failure" of governan ...Read More >
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