Kolkata Police Order Stations to Flag 10 Top Poll 'Troublemakers' for EC
The push follows Election Commission pressure for tougher pre-poll policing after past election violence.
Overview
- Kolkata Police directed every station to name ten people seen as most likely to cause trouble during the upcoming polls.
- The stations will route those names through divisional Deputy Commissioners to Lalbazar, which will then send the lists to the Election Commission.
- Police will intensify surveillance on the named individuals, with preventive or legal action possible to head off unrest.
- Lalbazar officials said the Election Commission suspended the Kasba station chief for omitting known local offender Sona Pappu from a trouble‑maker list.
- This step narrows the routine pre-election listing of 'trouble mongers' by focusing on the most notorious names drawn from existing police and intelligence rosters.