Ranchi, Feb 16 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s Ranchi Zonal Office filed a chargesheet on Monday before the special court in Ranchi under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), against Maxizone Touch Private Limited and its directors, Chander Bhushan Singh and Priyanka. The case involves a large-scale multi-level marketing fraud that duped 16,927 investors across the country through a classic Ponzi scheme promising unrealistic lifelong monthly returns of 15 per cent, the ED said in …
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Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday remanded 36 accused individuals arrested in connection with the recent violence at Beldanga in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal to judicial custody till February 19.Of the 36 accused persons, 31 were presented before the special NIA court through a virtual hearing after NIA officials failed to produce them physically due to the inability of the Murshidabad district police to pr…
Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) team probing the recent case of violence at Beldanga in minority dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, on Thursday morning, failed to produce 36 accused, arrested in the case, at a special NIA court.This is the second time the NIA has failed to produce the accused in court, and the reason is that the Murshidabad district police failed to provide adequate police escort again.Earlier, on February 5, the NIA team failed to pres…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the violence in Murshidabad district’s Beldanga area for two days last month over the death of a migrant worker from West Bengal in neighbouring Jharkhand, is focussing on the angle of ‘cyber-instigation’ though which the local people were misled and provoked by projecting a case of suicide as a murder.The NIA officials have already visited the cyber-crime police station at Baharampur to collect information and clues on th…
Jamshedpur, Jan 27 (IANS) Kairav Gandhi, the 24-year-old son of well-known Jamshedpur businessman Devang Gandhi, who was abducted 14 days ago, has been rescued safely from the clutches of his kidnappers, officials said on Tuesday.He reached his residence in Jamshedpur at around 4.30 a.m. on Tuesday.According to the police, he was recovered from somewhere between Hazaribagh in Jharkhand and Gaya in Bihar.Jamshedpur SSP Piyush Pandey confirmed the safe recovery of the businessman’s son and state…
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The BJP on Saturday alleged that the recent violence in Beldanga, a minority-dominated area in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, was provoked in a pre-planned manner by falsely portraying the suicide of a local migrant worker in neighbouring Jharkhand as a case of murder.BJP IT Cell chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, cited the post-mortem report of Alauddin Sheikh, furnished by Jharkhand Police, to assert that the death was conclusi…
Chaibasa/Ranchi, Jan 23 (IANS) Security forces scored another success in the ongoing anti-Naxal operation in Jharkhand’s Saranda forest as a woman Maoist was killed in a fresh encounter on Friday morning, officials said. The exchange of fire took place between the remote villages of Kumdi and Hinjodiri under the Kiriburu police station area in Naxal-affected West Singhbhum district.With this, the total number of Maoists killed in the operation has risen to 16.On Thursday, 15 Maoists, including…
Chaibasa (Jharkhand), Jan 22 (IANS) At least 15 Maoists, including top leader Patiram Manjhi alias Anal Da, who carried a reward of Rs 1 crore, were killed in a fierce encounter with security forces in the Saranda forest area of Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Thursday, officials said.Jharkhand Police’s IG, Operations, Michaelraj S., confirmed the death of Anal Da along with several other Maoists. He said a massive search operation is still underway in the area.Anal Da, a native of Giridi…
Kolkata, Jan 16 (IANS) The BJP on Friday claimed that the continuing tension, blockades and stone-pelting in West Bengal’s Beldanga since the body of the migrant worker, allegedly killed in Jharkhand, arrived, proved that the rule of law has collapsed in the state.With protesters blocking the National Highways and the railway tracks, normal life there has come to a standstill since Friday morning.There had been reports of rampant stone-pelting on the vehicles on the National Highway and trains o…
Kolkata, Jan 16 (IANS) Tension prevailed at Beldanga in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on Friday after the body of a local migrant worker, who was allegedly killed in neighbouring Jharkhand, reached his native village. The deceased migrant worker was identified as Alauddin Sheikh (36), a resident of Sujarpur-Kamarpur village panchayat under Beldanga in Murshidabad district.Sheikh was staying in neighbouring Jharkhand and earning his livelihood as a street hawker.His family members alleged t…