The Chief Secretary of Bengal, the state's top bureaucrat appointed by the Election Commission ahead of the state elections, received a sharp reprimand from the Supreme Court today for not receiving a call from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court when seven judicial officials were taken hostage in Malda last week. When the official, Dushyant Nariala, replied that he was on a flight and did not get any call, the court said he would have got a call in the evening if he had shared his number.