Murshidabad riots: Kolkata HC flags ‘inadequate’ number of police personnel; Bengal counsel Kalyan Bandopadhyay rakes up Pahalgam terror attack
The Kolkata High Court Thursday advised the West Bengal government to employ more police personnel, given the deaths of a father and son in the Dhulian riots in Murshidabad.
A Division Bench comprising Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury observed, “Now is the time to recruit sufficient police personnel. The number of police personnel in each district is less. The police force in Murshidabad is also very small.”
The court further observed that if there had been a sufficient number of police personnel, the situation in Dhulian could have been brought under control much earlier.
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State counsel Kalyan Bandopadhyay replied, “There is a shortage of forces in the entire country. If there were sufficient forces, the (terror) incident i...