Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Three persons have been arrested for allegedly raping a young woman in Kolkata’s Thakurpukur area, police said on Monday. Based on a complaint filed by the victim, officers of Thakurpukur Police Station, on the southern outskirts of Kolkata, arrested the accused.According to the police, the incident took place on Saturday night. Police sources said the main accused is the woman’s friend. The victim alleged that the main accused forcibly had sexual intercourse with her, wh…
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Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) CPI-M leader Layek Ali was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police on Sunday night in connection with the unrest in Baruipur. Ali had contested this year’s Assembly election as the Left Front candidate from the Baruipur Paschim constituency.Police did not specify the charges under which he was arrested. However, according to sources, investigators found his alleged links to incidents of road blockades, vandalism and attacks on police personnel durin…
Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) Kolkata Police have issued strict guidelines to expedite the registration and transfer of Zero FIRs within its jurisdiction as well as to neighbouring districts, a senior police officer said on Sunday. The guidelines have been issued to prevent administrative reluctance and systemic delays at the police station level in registering and transferring such FIRs.Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Nand issued the order on Sunday. According to the order: “It has been observed tha…
Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) A home tutor who is accused of sexually assaulting a 12th-grade student by calling her to his home has been arrested by the police, said a senior police officer on Sunday. The incident was reported by the Lake Town police station in north Kolkata.According to the police, the tutor called the student to his home for tutoring about four days ago. The girl alleged that the tutor wanted to spend time with her under the pretext of teaching. He gave her a drink laced with drugs…
Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) Two more persons have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a youth, 26-year-old Indrajit Tanti, on July 5 at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district over the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl following search operations.With these two fresh arrests, the total number of arrests in the case had increased to seven. The two, arrested after a night-long search, will be presented at a district court in South 24 Parganas later in the day, and the public p…
Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) West Bengal Police on Sunday changed the investigating officer (IO) for the case of the 12-year-old minor girl, allegedly raped and murdered at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district and appointed a more experienced and senior-ranking officer.Santanu Mukhopadhyay, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) rank officer, has been appointed to investigate the matter. The previous two IOs, who were replaced in succession, were inspector-ranking officers.The latest change in the…
Kolkata, July 11 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday directed the state police to immediately act and demolish all illegal liquor and marijuana joints throughout the state within the next two weeks. The Chief Minister said the mushrooming liquor and marijuana joints throughout the state during the previous Trinamool Congress regime often hampered the safety and security of women in the areas where such joints used to operate.According to him, the crime against the 12-y…
Kolkata, July 11 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced a compensation of Rs 25 lakh for the family of Indrajit Tanti, the 26-year-old youth who was lynched in Baruipur, South 24 Parganas district, on July 5 after being falsely suspected in the death of a 12-year-old girl.The girl’s body was recovered from a pond in the area on the morning of July 5, triggering violence and unrest. Amid the turmoil, Tanti was allegedly lynched by a mob after being wrongly linked…
Kolkata, July 11 (IANS) The West Bengal Police have arrested all five principal masterminds in connection with the lynching of a youth, 26-year-old Indrajit Tanti, on July 5 at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district over the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old minor girl in the area. Earlier, two persons, accused as masterminds in the case, were arrested by the police, and an insider from the Baruipur District Police, under whose jurisdiction the scene of crime comes, claimed that three oth…
Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the West Bengal Police probing the death of a 12-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped and murdered at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district, is also probing a possible angle that could establish links between some of the accused arrested in the case and a girls’ trafficking racket operating in the area.Although refusing to divulge detailed information for the sake of the investigation, an officer from the Baruipur Police District…