Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) Kolkata Police arrested an employee of a popular bar-cum-restaurant in Park Street for allegedly serving beef instead of goat meat to YouTuber Sayak Chakraborty. The arrest was made on Saturday after the YouTuber lodged a complaint at Park Street Police Station the previous night.”One employee of a popular restaurant/bar at Kolkata’s Park Street has been arrested on charges of serving beef instead of goat meat to a YouTuber after he lodged a complaint with Park Street poli…
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Kolkata, Jan 30 (IANS) Kolkata Police informed on Friday that the investigating team probing the devastating fire at the factory-cum-warehouse has arrested the manager and deputy manager of ‘Wow Momo’.The arrests were made late Thursday night, and the two persons have been identified as Momoronjon Sit and Raja Chakraborty. While Sit is the manager of the factory-cum-warehouse, Chakraborty is the deputy manager of the said outlet.Both are currently at the local Narendrapur Police Station and are …
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) The death toll in the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata reached 23 on Thursday with over 25 people still missing, sources said. Meanwhile, the fire department and forensic team have submitted their preliminary report on the incident. The report states that the fire did not originate from the Wow Momo factory, but from the adjacent ill-fated Pushpanjali decorator’s warehouse.Although the Pushpanjali warehouse owner, Gangadhar Das, who was arreste…
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) The police arrested a man from South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal for his alleged involvement in a cyber fraud case where a resident was duped of Rs 3.35 crore under the pretext of high-yield stock market investments, the police said on Thursday.The accused, identified as Hasan Molla, was apprehended from the South 24 Parganas district following a detailed investigation by the Cyber Crime branch.The police said that the victim, Ashish Kumar Ghora, 56, a resident of …
Kolkata, Jan 25 (IANS) The Kolkata Police’s Mounted Police will not participate in the Republic Day parade on the Red Road on Sunday. Sources in Kolkata Police said on Sunday that the Mounted Police have been kept out of the parade for the fourth consecutive year since a 2022 incident where a horse turned its back on the then-Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar during the salute.However, spectators can find some consolation in seeing the Indian Army’s mechanical ‘robotic mules’ instead of the real horses….
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) Cyber Crime Branch of Kolkata Police on Saturday busted a cyber crime racket and arrested four persons from Bihar and one from Maharashtra for various types of cyber crimes. The five were arrested after officers conducted a raid in Maheshtala area near Kolkata.According to the police, on the basis of credible information, a raid was conducted at the jurisdiction of Maheshtala Police Station in South 24 Parganas district on Saturday morning and the subsequent arrests were m…
Mumbai, Jan 24 (IANS) As her younger sister Riyaa Senn turned 45 on Saturday, her elder sister and actress Raima penned a birthday note for her “life long partner in crime.” Raima took to Instagram, where she shared a picture of her along with Riyaa. In the image, the two are seen hugging each other as they posed for the camera for a photograph.For the caption, Raima wrote: “@riyasendv happy day to my sister and lifelong partner in crime.”Talking about Riyaa, she began her acting career …
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) Kolkata Police have busted a fake job racket and arrested a man for allegedly cheating three youths of Rs 32 lakh by promising them jobs at Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), officials said on Saturday. According to the police, a man claiming to be a central government official defrauded three young men and women from Kolkata of 32 lakh rupees by promising them jobs at Indian Oil Corporation.Following this, officers from Patuli police station in south Kolkata began searching fo…
Kolkata, Jan 21 (IANS) Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director Rahul Navin will visit West Bengal again. According to ED sources, he will arrive in Kolkata on Thursday for a three-day visit. However, the reason for the ED Director’s visit has not been clarified by the agency. Many believe that this visit is highly significant in the backdrop of the recent ED raids at the house of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) director Pratik Jain and at the Kolkata office of I-PAC, a political consul…
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) A domestic worker has accused a Kolkata Police officer of molesting her, taking advantage of the fact that no one else was home, said the police on Saturday.The woman filed a complaint against the officer at the Kasba police station via email, the police said.The name of the accused police officer has not been revealed.The victim, a resident of the Sonarpur police station area in South 24 Parganas district, was working as a cook at the house of the accused police officer i…