Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) The West Bengal Police have been conducting raids and search operations since Thursday morning at the offices of different panchayats and municipalities in the state to bust fake birth and death certificate rackets that mushroomed in the state before the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise began ahead of the recently concluded Assembly polls.Among the places where such raids and search operations are being conducted are Suri, Rampurhat and Dubrajpur in Birbhum distr…
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Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) CPIM leader Meenakshi Mukherjee on Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking its intervention against the egg attack on her car on Tuesday. Meenakshi’s lawyer, Abhishek Halder, drew the attention of the single bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya of the Calcutta High Court to the egg-pelting incident.He said that eggs were pelted on Meenakshi’s car when she went to meet the family of a deceased party worker in Sitalkuchi of Cooch Behar district in North Bengal, an…
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) Eggs were thrown at CPIM leader Minakshi Mukherjee’s car in Sitalkuchi of Cooch Behar district in North Bengal on Tuesday. She was in Sitalkuchi to meet the family of a deceased party worker. While returning from there, the attack took place. The CPIM Central Committee member was accompanied by former party MP Alokesh Das in the car.It was learnt that CPIM activist Montu Mia died two days ago in Sitalkuchi. The CPIM claimed that the family believes that he was murdered. Th…
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) A minor girl was allegedly murdered in Dinhata of Cooch Behar district in north Bengal, police said on Thursday, while her family has alleged rape and murder.Her body was recovered from a jute field in the Bamanhat I Gram Panchayat area of Dinhata on Wednesday evening with a pair of leggings tied around her neck.The villagers and the family of the deceased alleged that the minor girl was raped before she was murdered. Police, however, have confirmed homicide, but sai…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) A Trinamool Congress block president has been arrested in north Bengal’s Cooch Behar district for allegedly indulging in violence and molestation, said the police on Tuesday.The police have arrested Abdul Kader, the Trinamool Congress president of Cooch Behar I-B block. The police arrested him from Guriahati II gram panchayat areas on Monday.He was produced in court on Monday afternoon. According to police sources, there are allegations of vandalism, looting and molestatio…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Saturday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of making “divisive, inciteful statements along with defamatory and unverified allegations” targeting the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In the letter, Trinamool Congress had referred to a public statement made by Assam Chief Minister Sarma at a campaign rally in Cooch Behar district, where the latter allegedly said that…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) Cash worth lakhs of rupees were recovered once again in West Bengal ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, the police said on Monday. Police and officials from the Static Surveillance Team (SST) recovered more than Rs 3.7 lakh in cash from three vehicles during searches conducted at two separate checkpoints within the Bakshirhat police station area near West Bengal-Assam border in Cooch Behar district.In connection with this incident, the police have detained three in…
Kolkata, March 22 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has stepped up action against unauthorised political advertisements across West Bengal ahead of the two-phase Assembly elections scheduled next month.In a statement issued on Sunday night, the ECI said a total of 3,58,986 such advertisements had been removed across the state so far.Of these, 3,11,829 cases were related to defacement of public property, while 19,901 involved defacement of private property.According to the ECI, Cooch …
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) Following the lead of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, North Bengal Development Minister Udayan Guha on Monday began a hunger strike in Dinhata to protest what he described as the arbitrary deletion of names from the electoral rolls of West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.Guha alleged that the Election Commission of India (ECI) had removed the names of ordinary voters at the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In protest, leaders and worker…
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Monday announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each and a job for one of the family members of five workers who were electrocuted in Cooch Behar district’s Dinhata area.North Bengal Development Minister Udayan Guha, Cooch Behar District Magistrate Raju Mishra, and Superintendent of Police Sandeep Karra met the family members of the workers and made the announcement. The state government has conveyed its support to the bereaved family members.”T…