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Asansol violence: Bengal to revamp intelligence mechanism

According to the state home department official, there are specific inputs that the riots that took place in Bengal after 2016 were "pre-planned and are not sporadic incidents as projected by a section of political parties and media"

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The West Bengal government is revamping its intelligence wing to help avert incidents of violence in the state, a senior home department official said. Caught off guard during the recent Asansol-Raniganj violence, the state is also planning to strengthen its ground-level intelligence gathering mechanism, the official told PTI. The revamp has been necessitated owing to inadequate infrastructure in the present set up.

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