Rajeev Kumar, the director common of West Bengal Police, said in a press convention on Sunday that nobody within the state might be allowed to use the turbulent state of affairs in Bangladesh. He emphasised that each the West Bengal and the Kolkata police had been well-equipped to deal with extremism successfully.
Kumar claimed {that a} Kashmiri militant was traced and handed over by the Bengal police. “We traced the Kashmiri militant for 2 days primarily based on the data offered by the Particular Activity Power of the West Bengal Police. We watched his actions. After that, we known as the Kashmir Police. We’re quietly doing our work. Not a lot might be stated concerning the investigation, particularly on militants. We will’t inform you earlier than they’re arrested or caught. It doesn’t imply we sit idly,” he stated.
Kumar not directly criticised the Border Safety Power (BSF) concerning incidents of infiltration into India from throughout the Bangladesh border. He said, “West Bengal is the one state that shares borders with three nations. Border safety is the BSF’s duty, and its operations have a number of flaws. In latest days, many people have crossed the border and entered Bengal. Nevertheless, we’re taking motion. We arrest the intruders and guarantee they’re despatched to the suitable authorities.”
Kumar stated that the success of the West Bengal Police was as a result of cooperation of the individuals. “We’re profitable in combating militancy as a result of we get individuals’s help. As we’re for individuals, so persons are for us. I can’t disclose all the data, however many actively cooperate with us on the bottom,” he stated.
“The place of West Bengal is such that if anybody from Bangladesh desires to go anyplace in Kashmir or the western a part of India, they must undergo this state. There isn’t a different possibility. Belief us. We’re doing our job, however quietly,” Kumar stated.
Kumar assured us that the police could be extra lively within the case of infiltration by forging passports. He stated that police superintendents of various police stations will personally supervise the passport verification course of within the coming days.
Through the press convention, Kolkata police Commissioner Manoj Verma and Javed Shamim, Extra Director Basic and Inspector Basic of the State Intelligence Department, who additionally holds the extra cost of Extra Director Safety, had been current.
Talking additional on the latest passport-related points and instances, Kumar identified how the police’s function was saved restricted to make the passport-making course of “seamless and simpler”.
“We’re altering the entire passport factor. SPs and Deputy Commissioners will personally look into it (referring to the verification process). Anybody who tries to disturb peace might be strictly handled,” Kumar stated.
Kumar stated that passport places of work are requesting clarification on numerous elements of the brand new police verification (PV) course of. The ministry has reviewed these inquiries, and the next clarifications concerning the brand new passport verification course of are offered:
(a) The brand new police verification report (PVR) is confined solely to the citizenship and criminality of the applicant.
(b) The particulars generated within the PP kind by the PSP system are already verified on the Passport Seva Kendras (FISK)/ put up workplace. Due to this fact, the police authorities are usually not required to confirm the identification of the applicant within the 131/R.
(c) The police authorities are usually not required to confirm the handle of the applicant.
(d) There isn’t a want for the police authorities to satisfy the applicant and get his/ her signature on the PVR.
(e) It’s, nevertheless, as much as the police authorities in the event that they wish to meet the applicant or choose to go to the residence of the applicant for the aim of getting ready the PVR.
(f) Doc verification is being achieved on the PSK/POPSK, and the police authorities are usually not required to re-verify them except particularly requested by the passport workplace.
(g) Through the PV course of, the police authorities are solely required to substantiate that the applicant is a citizen of India, and there aren’t any legal proceedings towards the applicant to disclaim a passport u/s 6(2) of the ACT.
(h) ‘Antagonistic’ PVR on grounds aside from citizenship or criminality of the applicant is to not be considered, and passports could also be issued topic to traditional checks by the passport workplace.
Why do you have to purchase our Subscription?
You wish to be the neatest within the room.
You need entry to our award-winning journalism.
You don’t wish to be misled and misinformed.
Select your subscription package deal
