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…
Bengaluru, July 9 (IANS) Four police officers, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP), have secured relief in the high-profile Bitcoin case after the Karnataka Home Department declined to grant prosecution sanction against them. This prompted the Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) Special Investigation Team (SIT) to drop charges and file a ‘B’ report before the court, police confirmed on Thursday.The four officers are DySP Sridhar Pujar and Inspectors D.M. Prashanth Babu, Laks…
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…
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…
New Delhi/Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee has launched a scathing attack on the newly formed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal, accusing it of unleashing “political intimidation at its worst” following a series of abrupt detentions and police summons.In a strong worded social media post aimed at the BJP government on at Thursday evening on X, Banerjee wrote: “Over the past couple of weeks, STF/CID @WBPolice has without prop…
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Wednesday ordered a major reshuffle in the state’s police department, with as many as 15 senior officers, including Indian Police Service (IPS) and WBPS officers, being transferred.Some officers have received promotions, others have undergone routine transfers, and in the case of a select few officers, their transfer notifications were revoked, and they were assigned new duties.As per the notification issued from the state secretariat of Nab…
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) A district court in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, on Wednesday issued a notice to Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, to be present at the court so that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sleuths can collect his voice samples in a case where he is accused of making violence-inciting statements and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a campaign rally.In the fresh summons issued on Wednes…
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…