kolkata the noise demon threatened to return to kolkata on sunday night riding piggy back on indias t20 win against west indies in the first match of the series at eden gardens noisy crackers were burst to celebrate team indias win in the lowscoring match that went well past 1016pm when krunal pandya raised his hand taking the winning runthe police are faced with an onerous task to limit the fireworks and the decibel norms in the 8pm10pm window on kali puja and diwali days on tuesday and wednesday respectively the intermittent bursting of crackers in select pockets of south southeast and central kolkata did not lead to firs or police complaints immediately but kept several people edgy however several kolkata pockets notorious for their highdecibel celebrations remained curiously silent police claimed sporadic raids to cut off the crackersupply routes to kolkata and campaigns against noise could be possible reasonsour officers were put on alert and asked to patrol areas under their jurisdiction from late evening to book anyone found bursting illegal crackers but there were negligible violations and our control rooms didnt receive any complaint till late in the night said a senior officer at lalbazarthough the city is known for wild celebrations after every india win a section of fans on sunday said that they themselves had decided to practise self restraint and refrained from bursting any crackerwe had flower pots and other crackers at home but decided to enjoy the match only said anirban saha a resident of new aliporesome traders who had set up temporary cracker shops in street corners also rued at the lack of sales i had kept stocks of crackers hoping the sales will escalate especially with indias match taking place on sunday but i did not even sell crackers worth rs 200 in the whole evening said a trader at manikatalasome crackers though were burst at kasba golpark behala bijoygarh maniktala entally and cossiporemeanwhile on sunday cops from multiple police stations along with officials of west bengal pollution control board met the secretaries of various residential highrises asking them to keep the terraces locked post 6pm on kali puja and diwali days and prevent residents from bursting crackers on the rooftops in any case bursting of crackers outside the window of 8pm10pm is not allowed in the city and its immediate fringesat bidhannagar commissionerate where a blanket ban on use of sky lanterns has been issued within 10km of the airport raids were carried out on sunday and illegal crackers worth several lakhs were seized at bangur avenue 25kg of banned noise crackers were seized from a 53yearold seller sushanta baidya who was later arrested at new town 50kg banned crackers were found from a seller named ananda chandra and he was subsequently arrested at bj market in salt lake police raided two shops and seized 45kg illegal crackers and arrested the sellers chiranjit shyamal and bappa mondal after they failed to furnish proper licence