Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Notorious criminal Raja Dutta was killed in a suspected shootout in the early hours of Monday near the Belghoria Expressway in North Dum Dum, police said, adding that five people have been detained for questioning in connection with the incident. No arrests have been made so far. Police have begun examining CCTV footage from the area to identify those involved and reconstruct the sequence of events. Preliminary investigations suggest that Dutta may have been killed in a …
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Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) A husband attempted suicide after hacking his wife to death on the road in broad daylight. The incident took place in Sodepur, North 24 Parganas district, on Wednesday. According to the police, the deceased woman has been identified as Geeta Das, aged 33. Her husband hacked her with a sharp weapon on School Road in the Future Gate area of Sodepur. She soon collapsed on the road. The incident took place in front of locals. Before anyone could do anything, the young man also…
Kolkata, May 31 (IANS) Police conducted a search operation at Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra’s house in the Kamarhati area of North 24 Parganas district on Sunday.Barrackpore Police Commissionerate Deputy Commissioner (South) Dyutiman Bhattacharya led the search operation.When the police reached Madan Mitra’s house on Sunday afternoon, it was locked and the MLA was not present. However, the police broke open the lock and entered the premises. After conducting a search for around an hour, the…
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has placed the Inspector-in-Charge (IC) of Naihati police station under the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal under suspension for allegedly carrying the Chairman of Naihati Municipality, a political leader, to the SDO office during the nomination process, an ECI insider said on Monday.The move by the ECI came after BJP leader Arjun Singh, a former Lok Sabha member from Barrackpore consti…
Kolkata, Jan 30 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Friday named Peeyush Pandey as the successor of Rajeev Kumar as the Acting Director General of state police. Kumar is set to retire from service on Saturday.At the same time, the state government had also announced the replacement of the current Kolkata Police Commissioner.The new Kolkata Police Chief will be Suprateem Sarakr, who is currently the Additional Director General of Police (South Bengal).The current Kolkata Police Commissioner, Man…