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Cops’ recruitment: Govt to file report

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered the state government to file an affidavit on the current status of recruitment in the state police. Chief Justice Mohit S Shah and Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta directed Home Secretary Samar Ghosh to file the affidavit by Monday after it heard a PIL alleging that a large number of posts in West Bengal Police has been lying vacant for a long time. Advocate Subroto Mookherjee,who moved the PIL,told the court that the government should recruit policemen considering the present security scenario in the state. In March,West Bengal Police decided to recruit 3,500 people from the unexhausted panel prepared by Kolkata Police in 2009. But one Biplab Sarkar had challenged the order in a tribunal,which held that it could be done only after making necessary amendments to the existing rules.

KMC told to give malaria fund info

The Calcutta High Court on Friday sought information on the financial assistance received by Kolkata Municipal Corporation from Centre to fight malaria. The court was hearing a PIL filed by one Pradip Roy alleging that the civic body failed to check the outbreak of malaria in the city. Earlier,KMC’s counsel said the Centre did not provide adequate fund for combating malaria,which was refuted by the Usha Nath Mukherjee,counsel of the Central government. According to Mukherjee,the KMC did not submit utilisation certificates of the funds resulting in the stoppage of funds.