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  • Kolkata Police search beauty parlour ‘owned’ by BJP youth-wing leader Pamela Goswami after drugs haul

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: The Kolkata Police on Sunday conducted a search operation at a beauty parlour allegedly owned by Pamela Goswami, a youth wing leader of the BJP arrested for possession of cocaine.

    Sleuths of the city police took Goswami to the parlour in the New Town area and conducted the search on the premises in her presence, sources said.

    Very active on social media platforms where she had taken on celebrities like singer Rihanna over the farmers’ protest, Goswami was arrested with her friend Prabeer Kumar Dey and personal security guard Somnath Chatterjee on Friday after 90 gm of cocaine was allegedly found in her handbag and concealed in the car she was travelling.

    She had created a flutter at a city court where she was produced on Saturday, trying to wriggle out of the grasp of police and screaming that Rakesh Singh, a close aide of BJP’s West Bengal pointsman Kailash Vijayvargiya, “plotted” her arrest.

    Goswami, a former fashion model and small-time actress, was remanded in police custody till February 25.

    Claiming that Goswami had been “brainwashed” by the Kolkata Police and the ruling TMC, Singh said he was not in touch with her for over a year.

    Singh said he was ready to face investigation by any agency.

  • BJP’s youth wing leader Pamela Goswami held with cocaine in Bengal

    Express News Service
    KOLKATA: BJP’s West Bengal youth wing functionary Pamela Goswami was arrested on Friday from New Alipore in south Kolkata after cocaine weighing 100 gm was found in her possession, said an officer of Kolkata Police.

    “Armed with specific information, we intercepted her vehicle. While searching, we recovered the contraband item,” said a police officer. Goswami was booked under the sections of the NDPS Act.

    Expressing her doubt, BJP MP Locket Chatterjee said there were many incidents in which our party workers were falsely framed. “The police planted arms and other contraband items to frame false charges against our workers. I am not fully aware of Goswami’s incident. If it happened really, it is condemnable,” she said.

    TMC Miniter Chandrima Bhattacharya said the incident was a shameful event. “We saw before how BJP functionaries were involved in infant trafficking cases. Police should conduct a thorough probe into the incident,” she said.

  • West Bengal government likely to reshuffle top police officers before Assembly polls

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: With the assembly election round the corner, the West Bengal government is likely to name Soumen Mitra as the new commissioner of Kolkata Police, a state government official said on Friday.

    He said that Mitra will replace Anuj Sharma who may be made the additional director general (Addl DGP) of the state CID. Siddh Nath Gupta, presently the ADG of state CID may be named as the Addl DGP (South Bengal).

    The Election Commission had named Mitra as the commissioner of the city police during the 2016 assembly poll in the state replacing the then top cop Rajeev Kumar. The state poll is due in April-May.

    The official said Jawed Shamim, who is Special Commissioner-I, Kolkata may take over as the next Addl DGP (Law and order) of the state, while Gyanwant Singh may be the Addl DGP (Armed Police). He said that changes are likely to be made in the rank of commissioners of police in the commissionerates of neighbouring Bidhannagar, Barrackpore and Howrah.

    Supratim Sarkar, Addl Commissioner-II of Kolkata Police, may be named as the next police commissioner of Bidhannagar Police replacing Mukesh, while Ajay Kumar may be take up the top post in Barrackpore Police in place of Manoj Verma, the official said.

    He said that C Sudhakar is likely to take charge as the chief of Howrah Police Commissionerate. “The necessary order for these postings will be issued very soon,” the official added.

  • Child abducted from Kolkata rescued in Jharkhand; one arrested

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: Kolkata Police on Saturday said it has rescued a child, who had been kidnapped from the city, in neighbouring Jharkhand’s Markacho area and arrested one person.

    The kidnapping incident happened in the early hours of Monday, when the child was sleeping with his parents on the footpath in Kolkata’s Kareya, police said.

    “Going by the complaint of the parents and checking the CCTV footage, we identified the person, who had come in a car and picked up the child.

    “After tracing his location, a raid was conducted at his residence, but by that time he had already left for Jharkhand,” a police officer said.

    With the help of Jharkhand Police, Kolkata Police officers launched a search operation, rescued the child and arrested the man on Saturday night, he said.