Latest Jayant Kant News & Updates

Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI), seeking the removal of Jayant Kant, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the Bihar cadre, as the Commission-appointed police observer for four assembly constituencies in the minority-dominated Malda district of West Bengal, because he is the husband of a BJP leader from Bihar. A letter on this count was submitted to the ECI by Trinamool Congress’s national working committee me…

Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of appointing the police officer husband of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from neighbouring Bihar as the police observer for four Assembly constituencies in minority-dominated Malda district for the forthcoming two-phase Assembly polls.In a joint press conference, state Education Minister Bratya Basu and party MP Partha Bhowmik claimed that the wife of the said Indian Police Service …

Patna, Dec 23 (IANS) After the mass suicide in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which took over the charge of the case, visited the crime scene on Tuesday. The horrifying incident occurred in Mishraulia village under Rupanpatti Mathurapur Panchayat, falling within the Sakra police station area of Muzaffarpur district on December 14, when four members of a family allegedly committed suicide inside their house.A special CID team led by DIG Jayant Kant arrived at …