West Bengal Police, probing the fake passport racket in the state, claimed to have got specific information about its kingpin Samaresh Biswa's network of Bangladeshi agents.
Sources said that acting on a specific tip-off, the officers of STF zeroed in on the house of the alleged illegal arms dealer and nabbed Mohammed Arif (40).
The elections in the CCB, which is located in the residential area of Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the state Legislative Assembly, are scheduled on 15 December. Around 430 candidates will contest in 108 seats of the CCB.
The high court has allowed the agency to file it's petition and listed the matter for hearing today.
According to the police notice, both the officers along with their injured colleague will come as witnesses for the purpose of investigation.
According to officials, two illegal improvised firearms, one incomplete barrel, one incomplete body and some articles used for making illegal arms were recovered from the accused's house.
Earlier, on October 11, the central agency Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Trinamool Congress MLA Manik Bhattacharya in connection with the West Bengal teacher's recruitment scam.
Calcutta High Court has also directed the Kolkata Police Commissioner to take steps so that there is no further violence.
Besides CBI, Enforcement Directorate is also conducting a parallel probe in the coal smuggling case in West Bengal. Abhishek himself has faced questioning,
The state police directorate has sent a proposal to the state secretariat for purchasing an additional 216 dogs for detecting criminals, drugs and explosives.
