While the squad was initially formed to enhance women's safety through scooter patrols across the city, it has now been assigned a role in conducting public awareness drives.
According to police sources Md Shahenshah was arrested after the arrest of the prime accused, Shamim, from Sodepur.
The task force has been created to identify, verify and initiate legal proceedings against foreign nationals who have overstayed their visas.
The Kolkata Police have started a fraud case following complaints from Lok Bhavan that a caller was contacting various officials from a particular mobile number impersonating Governor RN Ravi.
The Security Control Wing is currently looking into 69 such residents who might be staying on in the city or in various pockets of Bengal without a valid visa.
Amid the continuing crisis and tension in Jadavpur University over the ruckus within the university campus on 1 March, the Kolkata Police, on Wednesday, sent a communique to the university authorities seeking space within the campus to set up a police outpost there.
Kolkata police uncovered a murder plot in which a businessman was killed, his body stuffed into a trolley bag, and an attempt made to dispose of it on Kalyani Expressway, near Khardah in North 24-Parganas.
The Kolkata Police have summoned CPI(M)'s youth leader and former state secretary of the Students' Federation of India (SFI), Srijan Bhattacharya, for interrogation regarding the March 1 ruckus at Jadavpur University.
One person was arrested on charges of allegedly molesting a 15-year-old inside the intensive care unit (ICU) at the state government-run Diamond Harbour (DH) Medical College and Hospital in South 24-Parganas district on Tuesday night.
The personnel of Manikchak police station in Malda district on Friday arrested a civic volunteer attached to the same police station on charges of raping a woman who had been sick for quite some time.
