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Mamata Banerjee Orders Proactive Policing in Cooch Behar, Warns Against Border ‘High-Handedness’

She cited alleged BSF pushbacks to justify tighter local enforcement.

Overview

  • The West Bengal chief minister directed police to intensify naka-checks and restore round-the-clock patrolling in the border district.
  • She told officers not to be timid and to act proactively to maintain law and order along the IndiaBangladesh frontier.
  • Banerjee said agencies from other states must not arrest people in West Bengal without following due procedure and flagged earlier NRC-related notices from Assam.
  • Alleging forcible pushbacks by the BSF, she referenced the wrongful deportation of Sunali Khatun and said some of her family members remain across the border.
  • She urged full cooperation with booth-level officers during the accelerated Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls and criticized the compressed timeline as risky.