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Rush Hour: Plea against EC transfer of Bengal officers rejected, 9 killed in Nalanda stampede & more
Scroll | April 1, 2026 12:40 AM CST

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The Calcutta High Court dismissed a public interest litigation against the Election Commission’s decision to transfer several officers in poll-bound West Bengal. The court held that it found no evidence of mala fide intent in the orders.

The reshuffles were ordered after the schedule for the Assembly elections was announced on March 15. It included the transfer of the chief secretary, the home secretary and the director general of police, along with several other Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service officers.

A bench observed that courts cannot interfere with or sit in appeal over the administrative decisions of the poll panel “unless clear arbitrariness, mala fide or violation of statutory provisions is established”. Read on.

At least nine persons were killed and several others injured in a stampede at the Sheetla Mata temple in Bihar’s Nalanda district on Tuesday. Most of those who died are reported to be women.

Nalanda Superintendent of Police Bharat Soni said there was a massive crowd at the temple and that the police had no information that there would be such a rush. Residents...

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