The statement came after the apex court had asked the Tripura Director General of Police and Inspector General of Police to hold a joint meeting with the State Election Commissioner to assess the availability of sufficient central paramilitary forces.
Without naming Deb, Roy Barman, who earlier made several remarks against Deb, said a certain “parachuted paratropper leader” was sent to Tripura, who doesn’t have any idea about the state.
The court asked the Tripura DGP and IGP to hold a meeting with the State Election Commissioner by Wednesday morning to assess the availability of paramilitary forces for peaceful conduct of the local body polls.
Saayoni Ghosh was arrested on Sunday evening following allegations that she had “disturbed a poll rally of CM Biplab Kumar Deb, hurled expletives and pelted stones” at people gathered there.
The plea by TMC contended that its cadres were being targeted by the BJP government and false cases were being foisted on them despite earlier orders of the court.
On the charges of trying to promote enmity between groups of people and attempt to murder, police said that they have found “preliminary evidence”.
The organisation said its Associate Editor, Arti Ghargi, received a summons from Kakraban police station on November 19 evening.
The police said the blaze was triggered by an electrical short circuit at the camp and a few huts were dismantled for safety.
Tripura Police Assistant Inspector General Subrata Chakraborty said two “hardcore NLFT (BM) listed extremists” named Sanjoy Tripura, 30, alias Sapre and Akhindra Debbarma, 31, alias Shyama were arrested.
The curfew has been imposed in three ward areas of the Teliamura Municipal Council, 40 km from Agartala.
In an order issued Tuesday, High Court Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice S G Chattopadhyay observed that all twelve owners of the unlicensed pet shops were asked to procure due license from the State Animal Welfare Board but they didn’t comply.
Swarna Jha and Samriddhi Sakunia, who work for HW News Network, were granted bail by a Chief Judicial Magistrate's court after being arrested over alleged attempts of communal disharmony and criminal conspiracy.
Two weeks after police asked Twitter to block 68 handles and provide user details, 24 profiles have been taken down while 57 tweets are no longer available, including 23 “withheld in India in response to a legal demand”.
“They came to the police station around 2:30 pm and are answering our questions. The questioning is still going on (at 8:30 PM). They have cooperated so far with our investigation,” an official said.
Earlier, Samriddhi Sakunia, Swarna Jha said they were visiting Tripura for three days for a ground report on the cases of alleged religious vandalism that occurred last month.
Advocate Pijush Kanti Biswas said allegations of communal hatred levelled against the two journalists weren’t found in the FIR.
Police said that the journalists shared videos, which are suspected to have been 'doctored', claiming that a prayer hall was burnt in Gomati district and a copy of the Quaran was damaged.
Earlier, in September this year, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb had said in the Assembly that the state did not register any unnatural growth in population.
A Bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant and Vikram Nath issued the notice to the Tripura government on the plea of Trinamool Congress and its Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev
As per assessment of the health officials, 95 per cent of the infected persons are found to be either rubber tappers or staying adjacent to rubber estates.
CPM state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury said their candidates failed to file their nominations in seven civic bodies due to violence unleashed by the BJP.
The police said a separate case was lodged by the family members of a local resident who was allegedly injured when he tried to stop cattle lifters from stealing his cows.
Tripura minister for Information and Cultural Affairs Sushanta Chowdhury said, “So far as law and order is concerned, the government is very much serious. We’ll not allow anything which will allow communal destabilization…"
The Guild demanded that there should be a free and fair investigation into the circumstances of the riots instead of “penalising journalists and civil society activists”.
Police have said that while some 150 social media accounts were initially listed for scrutiny, after a careful examination of the content, 101 accounts were shortlisted, which allegedly had “malicious propaganda” in them and “potential to create hatred”.


