Chennai, June 6 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed charges in a Special Court at Poonamallee, Chennai, against four former cadres of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) for harbouring the proclaimed offenders (POs) involved in the Ramalingam murder case, an official said.The chargesheet named K. Mohideen, Mohamed Imran, Thameem Ansari, and Asmath, for knowingly harbouring the assailants and conspirators involved in the fatal attack on Ramalingam in Thirubhuvanam…
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Kolkata, June 6 (IANS) Former Trinamool Congress legislator, Saokat Molla, was remanded to 14 days of NIA custody on Saturday by a special court here, in connection with a bomb blast at Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal before the recently concluded Assembly polls. He will be presented at the NIA court again on June 19.After his arrest on Friday night, the sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) recovered a mobile phone and a pen drive from Saokat’s possession. Th…
Kolkata, June 5 (IANS) National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested former Trinamool Congress legislator Saokat Molla in connection with the bomb blast at Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. While attempting to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh through the coastal borders in South 24 Parganas district on Thursday, Saokat was spotted and chased by local villagers at the border-adjacent Chunakhali area. He managed to escape at that point.Earlier in the day, some close ass…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Polling for the second (final) phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections is set to take place on Wednesday, with voting to be held across 142 constituencies spread over six districts and the state capital, Kolkata, under unprecedented security arrangements.Polling parties dispatched earlier on Tuesday to their respective polling stations with EVMs, VVPATs and other polling materials for the final phase of polls in the state.The total number of registered electors in …
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) The bomb factories in West Bengal are back in the spotlight following the recovery of 79 crude bombs at Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district. The probe has been taken over by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the central agency would go into the larger picture as this does not appear to be an isolated incident.Officials say that the timing of the recovery is interesting as the agencies discovered the bombs just three days before the final phase of voting for…
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has initiated a probe into a bomb blast incident within the jurisdiction of the Bijayganj Bazar Police Station under the Bhangar division of Kolkata Police, a central agency insider said on Wednesday. The incident involved a series of consecutive explosions that occurred while crude bombs were being assembled in the South Bamunia village of Bhangar in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district. A person identified as Moshiur Qazi was…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) The All India Secular Front (AISF) on Monday announced the names of its candidates for 23 assembly constituencies for the two‑phase West Bengal Assembly elections scheduled to be held next month.Although AISF initially had indicated that it would announce candidates for all the 33 assembly constituencies it is fighting, it later declared the names of the candidates for only 23 constituencies.“This time the party is contesting the polls with a seat-sharing arrangement…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) Congress and All India Secular Front (AISF) are likely to publish their respective candidate lists on Monday.The Congress party is likely to publish its first list of 100 candidates for the 294-seat West Bengal Assembly. The AISF, which will have a seat-sharing arrangement with the CPI(M)-led Left Front, is expected to publish its candidates for all 33 seats which it will contest.Congress has, this time, decided to sever its seat-sharing arrangement with the Left Front, …
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) The Kolkata Police Commissioner recently directed the anti-rowdy officers of every police station in the city to submit a ‘rough register’ (a special diary or ledger) to their respective Deputy Commissioners of Police, containing the names and details of miscreants in their jurisdictions. The report was submitted to the Kolkata Police headquarters at Lalbazar on Monday, a senior police officer said.According to the Intelligence Department of Kolkata Police, the names …
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) One of the three children, critically injured in an explosion in a drum filled with chemicals in the Bhangar area of West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday morning. According to the police, the child, identified as nine-year-old Sadiqul Ahmed from Kharagachi in the Bhangar area, had suffered 95 per cent injuries in the explosion on February 17. He was undergoing treatment at MR Bangur Hospital in Kolkata. At around 6 a.m., he died …