Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) Former West Bengal minister Aroop Biswas on Tuesday appeared before the police for questioning in connection with the alleged mismanagement during Argentine footballer Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour event held in Kolkata last year.Acting on a notice served by the police on Saturday, Biswas reached the officers of Bidhannagar South Police Station at around 10 a.m., accompanied by his lawyer.The police questioned the Trinamool Congress leader as part of the ongoing investiga…
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Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) Former West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas has been summoned again by the Bidhannagar South Police Station in connection with the alleged mismanagement during Argentine footballer Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour event, police said on Sunday.He has been summoned several times in the past and had avoided appearing on multiple occasions. However, he appeared at the police station on June 18, when he was questioned for a long time.This time, the police have again served hi…
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 22 (IANS) Trinamool Congress on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court after the police decided to freeze three of its bank accounts. The party sought the court’s intervention to determine under whose permission and for what reason the accounts were frozen. Trinamool lawyers sought permission to file a case before the bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya. The court accepted the application, and the formal hearing may begin later this week. The three Trinamool accounts are said to…
Kolkata, June 18 (IANS) Former state minister Aroop Biswas on Thursday faced protests from a section of lawyers at the Judge’s Court in Kolkata, where he had gone to meet his lawyer. On hearing that he had arrived there, a group of lawyers appeared outside his lawyer’s chamber with eggs and began protesting. They demanded that the proceeds from ticket sales for Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour event at Yuva Bharati Krirangan in December last year be refunded.Meanwhile, another section of lawye…
Kolkata, June 13 (IANS) Former West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas has once again been summoned by police in connection with the alleged mismanagement and financial irregularities linked to Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour event held on December 14 last year.According to police officials on Saturday, the Bidhannagar South Police Station has issued a fresh notice directing Biswas to appear before investigators within 48 hours of receiving the summons. This is the third notice served on the for…
Kolkata, June 10 (IANS) Former state minister Firhad Hakim on Wednesday found himself in trouble after a complaint was filed against him at Bidhannagar South Police Station in Kolkata’s Salt Lake area for allegedly making obscene and disrespectful comments towards women. According to the complainant, Hakim made the comments one and a half years ago, when he also made remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker named Sanjay Payra filed the complaint on Wedn…
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) A single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected former West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas’s plea for a fast-track hearing on his petition seeking protection from coercive police action in the case of vandalism at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last year.Biswas is supposed to appear at the Bidhannagar (South) Police Station, under the Bidhannagar City Police in North 24 Pargana…
Kolkata, June 7 (IANS) The Bidhannagar (South) Police Station in North 24 Parganas district, on Sunday, sent a fresh notice of interrogation to the former West Bengal Sports Minister, Aroop Biswas, for questioning over an FIR filed against him for vandalism at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last year.Biswas has been asked to appear at the Bidhannagar (South) Police Station by Monday. This is the second notice sent by the police to B…
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) Former West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas, who was called in for questioning by the police earlier this week over an FIR filed against him for vandalism at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last year, on Thursday sought 14 days to appear for questioning. The Bidhannagar (South) Police Station in North 24 Parganas district had sent a notice to Biswas on June 2 in connection with the FIR, and in that notice t…