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…
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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…
Ranchi, June 30 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday once again expressed strong displeasure over the slow pace of the probe into the alleged large-scale illegal felling of trees across various districts of the state during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.Hearing the matter, a division bench of Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Sanjay Prasad questioned the state government why the probe has not been completed even after four years, and what the status of the investigation is in the ca…
Kolkata, June 29 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, for the second time rejected the plea of Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, for a fast-track hearing on his petition seeking the court’s permission to travel abroad for ophthalmic treatment.To recall, on June 23, Abhishek, the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, moved a petition at the Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Sauga…
Kolkata, June 28 (IANS) Sheikh Saifuddin, the prime accused in the murder of Prashant Dey, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker from Bagnan in Kolkata-adjacent Howrah district, was arrested on Sunday, within 12 hours of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s commitment for strong action in the matter.This is the 11th arrest in the murder case by a joint team of Howrah District Police and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the state police.The CID took over the investigation into the …
Kolkata, June 27 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday met the family of BJP worker Prashant Dey, who was killed in the Bagnan area in Howrah district in a case of political violence. Along with announcing compensation to the family, he also assured them of justice. So far, 10 people have been arrested in this incident, out of a total of 51 names in the FIR. The Chief Minister has ordered the immediate arrest of the remaining 41 accused. He said that if necessary, the ac…
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) A district court in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, on Tuesday granted permission to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to collect voice samples of Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee in connection with a case where he has been accused of inciting violence and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah before the recently concluded Assembly polls. Based on video footage of Banerjee’s alleged statements at a pre-election ra…
Kolkata, June 20 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Saturday questioned senior Trinamool Congress legislator Sovandeb Chattopadhyay for nearly an hour in connection with its ongoing investigation into alleged discrepancies in signatures on a crucial resolution related to key positions in the West Bengal Assembly.CID officers visited Chattopadhyay’s residence in the afternoon as part of the probe into allegations that the signatures of several Trinamoo…