Kolkata, June 6 (IANS) Former state minister Aroop Biswas and his brother Swarup Biswas, who was arrested yesterday over extortion and molestation charges, have been accused of forcibly occupying 21 kathas of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) land to hold their community Durga Puja for Suruchi Sangha. Officials of the insurance company approached Alipore police station on Saturday to reclaim their land and lodged a complaint in this regard. The incident has raised questions about the future of Su…
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Kolkata, June 5 (IANS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee — the Trinamool Congress supremo — on Friday announced her decision to retain her nephew and the party Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, as the party’s general secretary.However, she also appointed the party’s Rajya Sabha members, Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen as deputy general secretaries, which according to political observers, means that Abhishek Banerjee would no more be able to unanimously adopt organisational decisi…
Kolkata, June 5 (IANS) Swarup Biswas, brother of former West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas and an accused in the vandalism case at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last year, was on Friday remanded to 14 days’ police custody by a lower court in Kolkata after being arrested by Kolkata Police on Thursday night.Swarup Biswas was arrested following a complaint lodged by a female make-up artist associated with an organisation of make-u…
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) Swarup Biswas, brother of former West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas and an accused in the vandalism case at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last year, was taken into custody by Kolkata Police on Thursday night.According to information available from sources within the state police, the arrest was made in connection with allegations of extortion involving technicians associated with the Bengali film indust…
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) Former West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas, who was called in for questioning by the police earlier this week over an FIR filed against him for vandalism at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last year, on Thursday sought 14 days to appear for questioning. The Bidhannagar (South) Police Station in North 24 Parganas district had sent a notice to Biswas on June 2 in connection with the FIR, and in that notice t…
Kolkata, June 2 (IANS) The cops of the Bidhannagar (South) Police Station under Bidhannagar City Police in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Tuesday sent a notice for interrogation to Aroop Biswas, the former West Bengal Sports Minister, in connection with an FIR registered against him last week over vandalism at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last year. In the notice, Biswas was asked to appear at the Bidhannagar (South)…
Kolkata, June 1 (IANS) Aroop Biswas, the former West Bengal Sports Minister, on Monday approached a court in North 24 Parganas district with an anticipatory bail plea.His petition at the Barasat District Court follows an FIR registered against him last week at Bidhannagar South Police Station in North 24 Parganas district in connection with the vandalism at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last year.Although the petition has been admitt…
Kolkata, May 31 (IANS) An FIR has been registered against former state Sports Minister Aroop Biswas at Bidhannagar South police station in connection with the vandalism at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last year.The police registered the FIR on Saturday night on the basis of a complaint filed by the main organiser of the Messi event, Satadru Dutta, on May 17.Dutta had filed a complaint against the former sports minister under section…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) Actor Parambrata Chatterjee, on Wednesday, approached a vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court seeking the scrapping of the FIR registered against him last week at Gariahat Police Station under South Division of the Kolkata Police, accusing him of making a provocative social media statement, and instigating post-poll violence after the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections.The petition has been admitted, and the matter is expected to come up for hearing on May 29 before t…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) A complaint has been filed against Bengali actors Parambrata Chatterjee and Swastika Mukherjee with Kolkata Police, accusing them of inciting post-poll violence in 2021 through a social media post. Lawyer Joydeep Sen filed a complaint against the two actors at Gariahat police station on Thursday.Following the development, there was no response from the two actors in this regard.Five years ago, the controversy began around two comments made by Parambrata and Swastika on soc…