CRFP in Darjeeling

Finally the curtain raiser has been lifted today that the CRFP is coming   to hills after the news which came in light when home minster sinde and cm   banerjee agreed to send CRFP to Darjeeling hills To maintain law and order   situation in the restive Darjeeling hills, two companies of Central Reserve   Police Force (CRPF) will finally be deployed. 

Notably,   yesterday, two companies of Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) and two platoon of   Rapid Action Force (RAF) had reached Darjeeling hills and subsequently   deployed at different places in Kalimpong and other areas in Darjeeling hills   and now two more companies of the armed forces from the CRPF are going to be   deployed in Darjeeling hills. The   Darjeeling Superintendent of Police (SP), Mr. Kunal Agarwal confirmed the   deployment of the CRPF in the hills in a day or two. He added that one   company will arrive on the eve of 10 March and the other the day after. Addressing   a press conference in Kalimpong in the evening today, Mr. Agarwal said that   we have intimation from the Central Government that two companies of the CRPF   is being sent to the Hills that will be confined to Darjeeling and Kalimpong.   The two CRPF companies Bravo 50 and Echo 66 doing duty in West Midnapore are   being sent to the hills to maintain peace and order. When   asked why the CRPFs are being sent here Mr. Agarwal said that it is the   directive of the Central Home Ministry to have the CRPFs sent here and its   decision is taken by the Central Government themselves. As there has been   intermittent violence and attacks as well as reports that political parties   are not being able to organize their programs and their grievances that there   is no democracy in the hills, hence keeping all these in mind such deployment   is being done presently. The SP   also informed that in connection with the 7 March attack on Trinamool   Congress leaders, one Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) activist Dipesh Dahal   mentioned in the FIR from Bong Busty has been arrested today and tomorrow he   will be produced before the Court.

By Mukesh Sharma