howrahkolkata over 100 people were arrested across the state the entire howrah police top brass reshuffled and prohibitory orders imposed in uluberia subdivision as the bengal government tried to control pockets of unrest after two days of protests over controversial remarks made by exbjp functionaries on prophet muhammad after the internet and voip clampdown in howrah till monday morning the state on saturday extended it to parts of murshidabads beldanga rejinagar and shaktipur police stations till tuesday four cops were injured in protests in murshidabad officials saidcm mamata banerjee once again questioned why people in bengal should suffer for bjps sins in a statement on saturday the cm said as i have said before violent incidents have been taking place in howrah for two days now some political parties which want to cause riots are behind this but these things will not be tolerated strict action will be taken against all of those indulging in violence why should the common people suffer for bjps sinsin howrah the district administration issued orders restricting the assembly of five or more people and banned carrying of lathis or any weapons along the uluberia subdivision this was enforced rigidly along nh6 and railway stations which bore the brunt of the protests for the past two days the orders will remain effective till june 15 after a highlevel meeting howrah police commissioner c sudhakar and howrah rural police superintendent saumya roy were replaced on saturday cops use cctv to nail troublemakersthe bengal government on saturday replaced both the howrah police commissioner and howrah rural sp after two days of violent protests in the district kolkata police additional commissioner praveen tripathi will take charge as howrah police chief while dcp southwest swathi bhangalia will take over as howrah rural sp both sudhakar and roy will join kolkata policein addition 10 senior officers including officers from cid and state intelligence branch were asked to station themselves in howrahas traffic along nh6 and train movement along south eastern railways howrahkharagpur division normalised an isolated incident in panchla in the morning threatened to neutralise the efforts to normalise this stretch protesters who gathered at panchla bazar tried to force their way towards nh6 prompting police combat forces and raf to stop them as the mob resorted to stonepelting the police responded by firing three rounds of tear gas shells one of the tear gas shells exploded near the cops injuring six of them south eastern railways said they had to cancel four longdistance trains due to the overnight delayspolice said the arrest figures will increase we have gone through hours of cctv footage mobile call dumps and video footage to carry out these arrests they are all related to specific cases an officer said adg law and order jawed shamim said efforts were on to try and arrest the troublemongers and restore normalityseveral tourists especially from kolkata who were scheduled to return this weekend from popular destinations like mandarmoni digha and shankarpur stayed put at