Police fail to trace threat caller

Statesman News Service

MALDA, Sept. 22: The chairman of English Bazaar Municipality, Mr Narendranath Tiwari, has expressed discontent over the role of police who have not been able to identify a particular man have been making threat calls to him.

"Police have done nothing except increasing the number of security personnel I had by one”, said Mr Tiwari adding that police would not be able to identify or trace the caller who had been threatening him calling from a ‘coin telephone booth'.

On 16 September, he received first threat call about 4.10 p.m. and the caller kept calling him till 5.40 p.m. The unknown caller phoned him four times and one of the calls he made was from a landline number.

Congress leader Mr Tiwari received similar threat calls, again, at 4.39 p.m. on 19 September when he was in a meeting with the administrative officials. Some police officers were also present when he got the call.

According to Mr Tiwari, three police officers including IC English Bazaar had received last three calls of which one was from a landline number.

The chairman said that because of his municipal and political connections, few people have been conspiring against him.

“I took initiative to investigate the matter and got some clues. Finally, I decided to ignore such calls,” Mr Tiwari said.

"We detained some local phone booth owners and examined them. We are monitoring telephone network to trace the caller,” said Mr Satyajit Bandyopadhyay, the Malda SP.