Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police initiated an investigation into a complaint filed by activist Rajiv Sarkar, citing a threat to his life from Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee.In the complaint filed at the Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police station in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, Sarkar has expressed apprehension of being murdered because of his earlier complaint launched against Abhi…
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Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) The South 24 Parganas district administration is considering a reinvestigation into how the party office of the Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee was constructed over the land of an erstwhile bakery, which was suddenly gutted by a devastating fire in the closing quarters of 2014.The office was partially demolished during the last couple of days before the Calcutta High Court stayed the demolition.The district administration starte…
Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) A single judge special bench of Calcutta High Court, that conducted an urgent hearing on Sunday afternoon on the petition filed by the Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee, challenging the demolition of his party office at Amtala in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, ordered the administration of a “status quo” in the matter till further court orders.This means that although the Calcutta High Court directed the state admin…
Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) Despite being a holiday, an urgent hearing has been scheduled on Sunday afternoon at a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on the petition filed by the Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, challenging the demolition of his party office at Amtala in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district. The demolition started on Saturday and continued on Sunday morning.The matter will be heard at a special bench of Justice Raja Basu Ch…
Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) The demolition work of the five-storey party office of Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee at Amtala in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal continued on Sunday.During the course of demolition, which started from Saturday afternoon, the members of the joint demolition team of officers and staff from the South 24 Parganas district administration, fire services department, district police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) ha…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) All the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) offices in West Bengal will be demolished after the Trinamool Congress comes to power in West Bengal in 2031, said Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday, reacting to the demolition of his party office at Amtala in South 24 Parganas district earlier in the day. “We have already sent an email to the OSD of the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice attaching all the videos of the d…
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari told the State Assembly on Tuesday that a Bill with new and more stringent anti-corruption legal provisions will be moved on the floor of the House on the last day of the ongoing budget session on June 25. Participating in a debate over the budget proposals of the state Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta, which was tabled on the floor of the West Bengal Assembly on Monday, the Chief Minister said that once the new law will be impl…