Aiming to cater to the anticipated crowd, the Kolkata Metro Railway has decided to strengthen security arrangements at Esplanade, Park Street, Maidan, Rabindra Sadan, Dum Dum and Dakshineswar Metro stations on 31 December.
Twelve engines including a hydraulic ladder were pressed into service to douse the blaze.
A closed down hospital facility at EM Bypass is among the buildings to be used as quarantine centres.
The compulsions are seemingly reasonable, but environmental protection does not end with a check on greenhouse gas emissions.
While 863 were nabbed for disorderly conduct in public places including eve-teasing, nearly 2,600 were booked and fined for traffic rule violations with 1,289 fined for riding bikes without helmets, 654 for carrying more than one pillionrider, 531 for rash and drunken driving and 123 for other offences on the road, police said.
The Division Bench then fixed Kumar's anticipatory bail plea, which was filed yesterday, for hearing on Wednesday.
A source in the CBI said the agency could use it as a "substantial proof of “non-cooperation” on the part of the former city police chief.
The CBI has asked the officer, Waqar Raza, the deputy commissioner of police (port) to be present before the agency’s officers with files and documents relevant to the Saradha scam.
Earlier, they were issued summons by a five-member team that went to the residence of Kumar at Park Street to quiz the police officer’s wife Sanchita Kumar for the second consecutive day today.
The police said, “30 persons were arrested for disorderly conduct and handed over to respective police stations on the point of jurisdiction for prosecution.”
