Is not going to enable Bangladesh’s troubles to spill into WB: DGP

Director Basic of West Bengal Police Rajeev Kumar
| Photograph Credit score: ANI

Director Basic of West Bengal Police Rajeev Kumar stated on Sunday (December 29, 2024) that the risky state of affairs in Bangladesh is not going to be allowed to have an effect on peace within the State.

“We don’t want individuals to make use of it, (the state of affairs in Bangladesh) to create communal and safety issues right here,” Mr. Kumar stated on Sunday.

The DGP stated that border administration is the Border Safety Pressure’s accountability and admitted to “lapses” as individuals have crossed the border however emphasised that specialised groups have been “efficient in arresting and neutralising” such components.

West Bengal shares about 2,216 km of border with Bangladesh, and because the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime in August this yr, there have been a number of arrests of Bangladeshi nationals in Kolkata and different components of the State.

Arrest of terrorist

The police just lately unearthed a faux passport rip-off, and a number of other arrests have been made. The West Bengal police can be going through the warmth over the arrest of an alleged militant related to a terror outfit from Kashmir from Canning in West Bengal. 

Chatting with the media, Mr. Kumar stated that the West Bengal police had performed an important position in apprehending the militant.

“We tracked the Kashmiri militant for 2 days based mostly on data supplied by the Particular Activity Pressure of the West Bengal Police. We watched his actions. After that, we referred to as the Kashmir Police. We’re quietly doing our work,” he stated.

On the passport rip-off, the DGP stated {that a} current notification by the Ministry of Exterior Affairs has minimised the position of police, and the West Bengal Police have urged completely different businesses to overtake the passport verification.

Passport rip-off

“We’ve written to the MEA requesting them to strengthen the passport verification system, and we’re actively pursuing it. We suggest a brand new system the place the district intelligence department (DIB), native police stations, and senior officers may have a extra vital position,” Mr. Kumar stated.

The DGP was accompanied by Kolkata police Commissioner Manoj Verma and Jawed Shamim, Extra Director Basic and Inspector Basic of the State Intelligence Department.

Mr. Kumar stated that the West Bengal police have an distinctive observe report of coping with extremist components, together with the left wing and urged the media to not “exaggerate issues” and “paint us (the police) in unhealthy gentle.”

In a associated improvement, the police on Sunday arrested the kingpin of the faux passport racket. The accused, Manoj Gupta, is a resident of the Silpara space of Behala and was operating a journey company in Kolkata’s Sakher Bazaar. The accused was produced earlier than Alipore Court docket and was despatched to police custody. 

A number of arrests have been made in reference to the faux passport rip-off. Bangladeshi nationals secured unlawful identities to remain in India and used these to journey the globe. The police have seized particulars referring to about 70 faux passports.