Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) The Kolkata Police have arrested a young man for duping a woman after he befriended her on a matrimonial site and promised to get married, said a police official on Wednesday. Following the initial investigation, it was learned that the young man had similarly duped several women of money and jewellery, and allegedly married 15 women through this kind of fraud.According to the police, the young man has been identified as Matiur Rahman, a resident of Bowbazar in central Kol…
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Kolkata, June 2 (IANS) Police investigation into the Golf Green double death case has revealed that the flat, rented by Mohammad Dilshad, was frequently used for house parties involving young men and women, where drugs and alcohol were consumed, and obscene reels allegedly filmed.A senior officer of Kolkata Police said that the flat was a hub of substance abuse, with young people getting addicted to drugs and alcohol and creating obscene reels.This shocking information came to light during the i…
Kolkata, June 2 (IANS) Amid several negativities tagged with them during the 15 years of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress regime in West Bengal from 2011 to 2026, Kolkata Police have started undergoing a series of reforms under the new Suvendu Adhikari-led BJP rule in the state, distinctively to revive the force’s past glory as the “Scotland Yard of the East”. During the last 15 years, there have been several instances where the image of Kolkata Police (previously Calcutta Police…
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) West Bengal’s Congress leaders once used to term the Left Front as “Harmad” – a distorted version of the Spanish and Portuguese word “Armada”, which defines a fleet of warships. Fleets were said to have frequently raided the coastal regions of southern and southeastern Bengal in the 16th and 17th centuries. Over time, local people corrupted the word Armada into Harmad to describe plunderers. The term gained national attention centuries later, amidst clashes b…
Kolkata, June 1 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo and former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched an attack on expelled Trinamool Congress legislator Ritabrata Banerjee, without directly naming him, and referred to his expulsion from the CPI-M in 2017 when he was a CPI-M Rajya Sabha member.“The CPI-M did the right thing by expelling him. After his expulsion from the CPI-M, he came to me and begged for rehabilitation. We felt pity and first nominated him to the Rajya Sa…
Kolkata, June 1 (IANS) The police have received important clues in the investigation into the mysterious deaths of a young couple in a flat in Golf Green area in south Kolkata on Sunday and detained one more person in connection with the incident, said the police on Monday.On Sunday, two persons including a woman were arrested after the bodies of the couple were recovered in the afternoon. After interrogating them, the police came to know about another person, who was then detained late in the n…
Kolkata, May 31 (IANS) The bodies of a young man and a woman were recovered from a flat in the Golf Green area of south Kolkata on Sunday, police said. Two young men, who were allegedly found in an intoxicated condition inside the flat when the bodies were recovered in the afternoon, have been arrested.Police have launched an investigation to ascertain the circumstances leading to the deaths.It is learnt that the deceased man has been identified as Mohammad Dilshad, a resident of the Tiljala are…
Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) Second hospital in central Kolkata, where Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee, who was heckled and assaulted at Sonarpur in South 24 Paraganas district of West Bengal earlier in the day, was shifted on Saturday evening, refused admission, and instead issued a medical certificate stating “no admission required”. After Banerjee was escorted out of Sonarpur by security forces, he was first taken to a private hospital near the East M…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) A single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Friday, granted interim protection to actor Parambrata Chatterjee from coercive police action including arrests in relation to the FIR registered against him last week at Gariahat Police Station under South Division of the Kolkata Police, accusing him of making a provocative social media statement, and instigating post-poll violence after the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections.On May 27, the actor approached the…
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Former Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner (DC) Shantanu Sinha Biswas and real estate developer Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu were produced before the Bankshall court on Thursday as the ED custody period expired. Shantanu’s lawyer requested the judge to grant his client the status of a ‘Grade One’ prisoner.Shantanu’s lawyer said on Thursday, “Shantanu has a threat to his life. My client has conducted important investigations in several police stations. Several accu…