A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday held that the state and city police should create a separate server to maintain crime records, particularly those of political activists.

The court made the observation after the advocate-general failed to tell it whether there were other criminal cases against Srijan Roy, the brother-in-law of BJP leader Mukul Roy.

The court was hearing Srijan Roy’s bail plea in a criminal case accusing him of collecting money from youths on the false promise of providing them jobs in the railways.

The alleged assurances had been given when Mukul Roy was railway minister. The leader earlier obtained bail in the case.

During the hearing the senior judge on the bench, Justice Jaymalya Bagchi, asked advocate-general Kishore Dutta whether Srijan Roy was a political activist and whether any other criminal cases were pending against him.

The advocate-general replied: “I have no definite information about your queries.” He prayed for time to submit his reply.

Justice Bagchi said: “The Supreme Court has already ruled that the police of every state should have a special server to keep criminal records of each and every accused person, specially political activists. But in this state, the police are yet to create such a server. The server can help both the police and the judiciary obtain details about any accused person.”