GALSI: A day after a purported audio tape -in which she is heard proposing a rally with the bodies of Cooch Behar firing victims- surfaced, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that her phone is being tapped and said she will order a CID probe into it.
Addressing an election rally here, she accused the BJP of being involved in the conspiracy as the saffron party cannot match the ruling Trinamool Congress campaigning on development programmes. They (BJP leaders) are even eavesdropping on our everyday conversation. It seems they are tapping our phone calls on cooking and other household chores.
NEW DELHI: A fresh controversy has erupted in West Bengal after the BJP yet again released a purported audio clip of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, this time on last week s firing incident in Cooch Behar in which four people were killed.
Here s how the row unfolded .
BJP releases audio tape
BJP national IT cell incharge Amit Malviya on Friday released the audio tape of a purported conversation between Mamata and TMC Sitalkuchi candidate Partha Pratim Ray.
In the tape, the female voice, alleged to be that of Mamata s, can be heard asking Partha to “keep the bodies so that the party could hold a rally with the dead”.
Threat note on Bengaluru-Delhi flight triggers bomb scare; 12 flyers under lens
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Threat note on Bengaluru-Delhi flight triggers bomb scare; 12 flyers under lens
Saurabh Sinha / TNN / Updated: Apr 17, 2021, 23:36 IST
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NEW DELHI: The captain operating an AirAsia India Bengaluru-Delhi flight with about 170 passengers on board on Saturday discovered a note in the lavatory threatening to blow up the aircraft on landing.
The note read, “there is a bomb on board I will blast as soon as it reaches Delhi,” and this flight I5-741 was scheduled to go to Srinagar from the capital. Luckily the Airbus A320 (VT-JRT) landed safely at IGI Airport where it was taken to a remote bay for checks and released for subsequent flights after being declared safe.
›Bengal elections: 45 constituencies to go to polls in fifth phase, fate of 342 candidates to be sealed
Bengal elections: 45 constituencies to go to polls in fifth phase, fate of 342 candidates to be sealed
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Bengal elections: 45 constituencies to go to polls in fifth phase, fate of 342 candidates to be sealedPTI
Last Updated: Apr 16, 2021, 02:09 PM IST
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Security measures have been heightened for phase five in view of the violence in the previous phase, which witnessed the death of five people in Cooch Behar, including four in CISF firing.
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Over one crore voters in West Bengal will decide the political fate of 342 candidates on Saturday, when 45 assembly constituencies go to polls in the fifth phase, amid a raging second wave of COVID-19.
Bengal CID Takes Over Probe Into CISF Firing Deaths in Cooch Behar
The West Bengal CM had previously termed the incident as genocide.
Security personnel keep vigil at a polling station after Election Commission ordered of stopping the voting exercise at polling station number 126 in Sitalkuchi, where clashes erupted between locals and central forces, at Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar district, Saturday, April 10, 2021. Photo: PTI
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Kolkata: West Bengal CID on Friday, April 16, took over the case of the killing of four people in firing by the CISF during polling in Cooch Behar district on April 10, a senior government official said.