Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu appeared before Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake here on Monday, after remaining untraceable for months in connection with a syndicate case.He had been wanted since his name was implicated in the Rabindra Sarovar incident last February. He went live on social media from time to time, but could not be found. The ED also raided his house to investigate a syndicate case. However, Sona Pappu suddenly appear…
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Kolkata, May 17 (IANS) Protests erupted on Sunday at the Park Circus seven-point crossing in central Kolkata against the recent demolition of illegal constructions in the Tiljala area using bulldozers. A gathering was held at Park Circus, with protesters attempting to block the road. The protesters allegedly hurled bricks at police personnel and vandalised several police vehicles. Several policemen were injured in the attack, while buses on the road were also damaged.Police have arrested several…
Kolkata, May 17 (IANS) The Kolkata Police have arrested a person with firearms and cartridges from the Banshdroni area in the southern outskirts of the state capital.The police said on Sunday that two improvised country-made semi-automatic firearms, along with four live cartridges, were recovered from his possession.”Acting on specific information, Kolkata Police arrested Satyabrata Basu Roy (28), resident of Niranjan Pally, Kolkata, under the jurisdiction of Bansdroni Police Station,” said Kolk…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) Abhijit Gangopadhyay, BJP Member of Parliament from Tamluk and former Calcutta High Court judge, has expressed anger over Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigating officer Seema Pahuja in the probe into the rape and murder of a female doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. However, he also praised the CBI’s investigation into the matter while raising several questions. His main complaint concerns Seema, whom he claimed failed to conduct the investigatio…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker was allegedly attacked in broad daylight on the southern outskirts of Kolkata on Saturday, with a part of his finger severed during the assault.The incident took place at Valley Park on Serampur Road in the Garia area, where a BJP worker and an alleged Trinamool Congress supporter reportedly got into an altercation at a grocery store. The attack allegedly followed soon after.According to the police, two residents of the same neighbourh…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) The sleuths of Kolkata Police, on Saturday, said that they have arrested a youth for sending a fake email to the police warning of the murder of the new and ninth West Bengal Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari. The arrested youth had been identified as Hasnem Iqbal. According to a senior officer of the Kolkata Police, an email landed at Bhabanipur Police Station in South Kolkata, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Chief Minister’s current Assembly constituency of Bh…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) The West Bengal government had terminated the services of Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner, Shantanu Sinha Biswas, who was arrested by officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).The action was in connection with a couple of money laundering-cum-land-linked syndicate cases involving a notorious and currently absconding history-sheeter.Despite attaining the official retirement age of 60, Biswas was retained under extension for two years by the previous Mamata Banerjee-l…
Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) The Railways on Friday sanctioned three new projects for West Bengal, where there has been a change of regime following the recently concluded Assembly polls, ending the 15-year Trinamool Congress rule and marking the beginning of the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in the state since Independence.According to West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, he had received three separate subject letters relating to the projects from Railway Minister Ashwini …
Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) In a major crackdown against the long-standing menace of the use of mobile phones within different correctional homes, the West Bengal government on Friday announced the suspension of the Superintendent and Chief Controller of the Presidency Central Correctional Home in South Kolkata, which is the state’s biggest correctional home. Announcing this at a press conference at the state secretariat of Nabanna, the new and ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari,…
Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) The new and the ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday announced the suspension of three Indian Police Service (I.P.S.) officers including a former Commissioner of the Kolkata Police in connection with the rape and murder of a lady junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata within the hospital premises in August 2024.Those suspended include the-then Commissioner of Kolkata Police, Vineet Kumar Goyal, the-then Dep…