Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday approached the Calcutta High Court seeking its intervention in directing the West Bengal Police to submit the case diary of last month’s violence at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district to the central agency officials probing the matter.In its petition, the NIA counsel had argued that the state police was refusing to hand over the case diary in the matter despite the Supreme Court’s Division Bench of Chief …
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Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) The West Bengal Land & Land Reforms Department has issued a show-cause notice to Mira Sultana, wife of maverick and now suspended Trinamool Congress legislator Humayun Kabir, accusing her of unlawfully changing the classification of a piece of land in Murshidabad district.The notice was issued to her following a mass petition submitted to the state land & land reforms department, accusing Sultana of changing the classification of land measuring 0.2 acres at Beldang…
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) Janata Unnayan Party founder Humayun Kabir, on Saturday, claimed that being a part of Trinamool Congress’ “ploy” to defeat former state Congress president in West Bengal and former five-time Lok Sabha member, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, from Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency in 2024 was one of the biggest blunders in his life. Kabir is the legislator from Bharatpur Assembly constituency, which is one of the seven Assembly constituencies under Baharampur Lok Sabha. After gettin…
Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) team probing the recent case of violence at Beldanga in minority dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, on Thursday morning, failed to produce 36 accused, arrested in the case, at a special NIA court.This is the second time the NIA has failed to produce the accused in court, and the reason is that the Murshidabad district police failed to provide adequate police escort again.Earlier, on February 5, the NIA team failed to pres…
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Calcutta High Court to independently examine whether the invocation of provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was justified in connection with the recent violence at Beldanga in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a petition filed by the West Bengal government challenging the…
Kolkata, Feb 11 (IANS) The construction work for the Babri Mosque at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, masterminded by the maverick and now-suspended Trinamool Congress legislator, Humayun Kabir, will start from Wednesday.The construction work will start today with the recitation of the Quran Sharif later in the day. The exact time of the beginning of the programme is yet to be confirmed by Kabir at the time the report was filed. However, a close associate of Ka…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the violence in Murshidabad district’s Beldanga area for two days last month over the death of a migrant worker from West Bengal in neighbouring Jharkhand, is focussing on the angle of ‘cyber-instigation’ though which the local people were misled and provoked by projecting a case of suicide as a murder.The NIA officials have already visited the cyber-crime police station at Baharampur to collect information and clues on th…
Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over the probe into the violence in Murshidabad district’s Beldanga area for two days earlier this month over the death of a migrant worker from West Bengal in neighbouring Jharkhand.Sources said on Saturday that the development coincided with Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to West Bengal.The NIA took over the investigation on a day when HM Shah is scheduled to hold a workers’ meet in Barrackpore and Siliguri later i…
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The BJP on Saturday alleged that the recent violence in Beldanga, a minority-dominated area in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, was provoked in a pre-planned manner by falsely portraying the suicide of a local migrant worker in neighbouring Jharkhand as a case of murder.BJP IT Cell chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, cited the post-mortem report of Alauddin Sheikh, furnished by Jharkhand Police, to assert that the death was conclusi…
Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday gave freedom to the Union government to order a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the violence and tension for two days last week at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, reportedly over the alleged murder of a local migrant worker from that district in Jharkhand.The Division Bench of Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen also directed…