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…
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Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday gave an ultimatum to Trinamool Congress General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, asking him to appear at Bidhannagar Court and give his voice samples to sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), failing which the single-judge Bench would withdraw protection from coercive police action against the leader.The court asked Abhishek Banerjee to appear at Bidhannagar Court in North 24 Paragans district of West Bengal by 2 p.m. on Jul…
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) Encounter – a word that originally meant a meeting or clash has, in India, become a euphemism for police shootings of suspects in a shift that was reignited after a recent West Bengal event which has reopened debates about rule of law, accountability, and political rhetoric.The West Bengal government has now assigned the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the “encounter” killing of one of the four people accused in the alleged rape and murder of a 12…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Thursday recorded the statement of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from the Gosaba Assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district, Bikarna Naskar, in connection with the case registered against Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, who has been accused of making hate speeches ahead of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections…
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 8 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday again avoided appearing at the Bidhannagar Court in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal to give his voice samples in connection with a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probe into an alleged hate speech case linked to the recent Assembly elections. Banerjee, as directed by the same court, was supposed to appear at the court by 12 noon on Wednesday to give his voice samples in the presence of th…
Bengaluru, July 7 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Corporator N.R. Ramesh on Tuesday alleged that former BBMP Corporator K.M. Chetan, a close aide of Karnataka Minister for Bengaluru Development Krishna Byre Gowda, had encroached upon 32 guntas of Union government land belonging to the Ministry of Power and registered in the name of President Droupadi Murmu. He demanded a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probe into the alleged…
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) Legal pressure mounted on Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday after the Calcutta High Court questioned his reluctance to provide voice samples in connection with a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probe into an alleged hate speech case linked to the recent West Bengal Assembly elections. The case relates to a campaign rally where Banerjee was accused of making violence-inciting remarks and allegedly…
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday extended the interim protection from coercive police action, including arrest, for Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee in the ongoing CID probe into the West Bengal legislators’ signature mismatch case. However, while granting the extension till July 17 in the case of mismatches in the signatures of some Trinamool Congress legislators on a crucial signature on some crucial app…
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected a plea by Trinamool Congress’ General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, for a fast-track hearing on his petition seeking exemption from providing a voice sample to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police.The CID seeks to collect Abhishek Banerjee’s voice samples in the case where he is accused of making inciting statements and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a campaign ra…