Overview
- Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday directed DGP Siddh Nath Gupta to review all complaints from the December 2019 anti‑CAA protests and to set up a special police cell to re‑examine alleged vandalism and arson.
- The special cell will create fresh case files from older complaints and is reported to have an office planned in Adhikari’s Bhabanipur constituency as part of the effort to centralize investigations.
- Officials have asked Railway Police to cooperate in probes into alleged attacks on trains and stations so investigators can reconstruct damage to railway property and identify suspects.
- The government says it may pursue recovery of compensation from individuals if investigations substantiate claims of damage to public property; the process is currently in the initial implementation phase.
- Coverage notes both the scale of 2019 disruptions—reports cite damage at many stations and dozens of trains with limited FIRs at the time—and the political context after a BJP change of government, which critics say could shape the priorities of the renewed probes.