Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) A man has been arrested by the police following allegations of defrauding people on the pretext of providing flats and land in New Town and Salt Lake, police said on Thursday. He has been accused of cheating people of around Rs 70 lakh.He was arrested from Amherst Street in north Kolkata on Wednesday night by personnel of Bidhannagar North Police Station. Police have launched an investigation into the matter.The arrested man has been identified as Robin Dutta. He is accuse…
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Kolkata, July 2 (IANS) Former Trinamool Congress councillor from the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, Debraj Chakraborty, who was arrested on July 1 by the West Bengal Police in connection with a disproportionate assets case, was on Thursday remanded to seven days in police custody by a district court.When Chakraborty, also the husband of former Trinamool legislator and acclaimed devotional singer Aditi Munshi, was produced before the Barasat Court …
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) The West Bengal Police on Wednesday arrested former Trinamool Congress councillor from Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation in North 24 Parganas district, Debraj Chakraborty, in relation to an ongoing disproportionate assets case registered against him. Last week, the Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Jay Sengupta rejected the anticipatory bail plea from Chakraborty, the husband of former Trinamool Congress MLA Aditi Munshi, an acclaimed devotional singer in…
Kolkata, June 27 (IANS) Contraceptives, a bed and dressing table were discovered inside a ward office of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation office last night after it was opened. The ward office, which used to be run by Trinamool Congress, was found locked since the state Assembly elections results were declared on May 4.After it was opened, the ward office turned out to be a luxurious place with multiple air conditioners and sofas in several rooms.MLA of the area and state Health Minister Dr. Sh…
Kolkata, June 24 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted interim anticipatory bail to former Trinamool Congress legislator Aditi Munshi, also an acclaimed devotional singer, in a case registered against her by the West Bengal Police accusing her of possessing assets disproportionate to her income.However, while granting anticipatory bail to Munshi, the single-judge bench of Justice Jay Sengupta rejected the anticipatory bail plea of her husband, Debraj Chakraborty, who is himself a T…
Kolkata, June 24 (IANS) A day after the recovery of over 3 kilograms of gold jewellery worth over Rs 4.39 crore from her house, Nadia Zilla Parishad member and Trinamool Congress leader Tina Bhowmik Saha and her husband have gone missing, said the police on Wednesday.The police have started a search for Tina Bhowmik Saha who is a close friend of arrested Trinamool Congress leader and former Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta.The police said that Tina Bhowmik Saha and her hu…
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) Another Trinamool Congress-controlled Municipal Corporation Board in West Bengal is heading for dissolution, as the Mayor of Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) in Darjeeling District, Gautam Deb, tendered his resignation from the chair on Friday.He has forwarded his resignation to the SMC Commissioner, Ashwini Kumar Roy.With this, SMC is the fourth municipal corporation in the state which is heading for dissolution. The first three were — the Kolkata Municipal Corporat…
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) Former two-term Trinamool Congress MLA from Rajarhat-Newtown Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal and also the former chairman of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation in the same district, Sabyasachi Dutta, was arrested early Tuesday morning.The main charges against Dutta are involvement in corruption, extortion and rampant threatening of people in his locality.Sources aware of the development said that Dutta, currently a councillor of ward n…
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor Krishna Chakraborty resigned from her post on Thursday, citing personal reasons. The development comes a day after Trinamool Congress MLA Firhad Hakim resigned as Kolkata Mayor. Trinamool Congress has now lost control of both civic bodies in the city. Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is located in the Salt Lake area of Kolkata.Krishna Chakraborty submitted her resignation letter to the Commissioner of Bidhannagar Municipal Cor…
Kolkata, May 22 (IANS) The new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled West Bengal government has carried out a major bureaucratic reshuffle in the state, transferring as many as 17 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers at one go.As per the order issued by the state Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department, a copy of which is available with IANS, the 17 transferred IAS officers include departmental secretaries, municipal commissioners and additional district magistrates.Sources in the…