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…
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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…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday accused his predecessor, Mamata Banerjee, of not learning a lesson from the Trinamool Congress’s defeat, adding that she is continuing with old tactics of appeasement politics, deceit, and provocations. CM Adhikari substantiated his allegation against his predecessor, referring to the last comment by Mamata Banerjee where she described the recent violent protests, attack on policemen and vandalising of public property…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy on Thursday came in defence of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after a video of her slapping a party worker surfaced online, saying that the alleged slap was “affectionate” and that all workers of the party faction led by the former Chief Minister are “like her own children”.A controversy erupted after a video showed Mamata Banerjee slapping a worker of the Trinamool Congress faction-led by her, amid chaos during the part…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Thursday entrusted the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe and submit a report on the encounter killing of Pravas Mondal, one of the four persons accused in the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district.At the same time, an insider from the state secretariat of Nabanna said that a judicial probe as per norms has already been initiated into the matter, which will continue.Mandal was ki…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) The West Bengal Police informed on Thursday that 22 more suspects have been apprehended in the last 24 hours. They have been identified in connection with the lynching of a youth, attacking police, vandalism of public property, including police vehicles and railway tracks, and the outbreak of violence that occurred after the death of a minor girl, who was allegedly raped and killed in Baruipur, South 24 Parganas district.With the arrests of these 22 individuals during the …
Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused the police of disobeying the Calcutta High Court’s order and warned of initiating legal proceedings against the officials concerned for alleged contempt of court.The Trinamool Congress leader made the remarks after chaos broke out during her party’s protest march in Kolkata against the alleged rape and murder of a minor in Baruipur. She alleged that despite the Calcutta High Court permitting the process…
Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday lost her cool and slapped a party worker amid chaos during her party’s protest procession in Kolkata against the alleged rape and murder of a minor in Baruipur.The Trinamool Congress faction led by Mamata Banerjee had called for the procession in protest against the Baruipur incident. The march began from the Ballygunge outpost towards Hazra Crossing in south Kolkata following the order of the Calcutta High Cou…