Kolkata, May 17 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday paid his respects to his murdered personal assistant Chandranath Rath at his residence. Adhikari met the victim’s mother and assured the family that “justice will be done”.Chandranath’s mother, Hasirani Rath, told media persons: “He (Suvendu Adhikari) also cried. I have faith in the Chief Minister. I hope justice will be done for my son’s murder.”On the night of May 6, Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant was…
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Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) Immediately after receiving charge of investigating the murder of Chandranath Rath, the deceased personal assistant of current West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, investigating officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday arrived at the spot of the assassination at Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district. Previously, the Special Investigation Team of the West Bengal Police was handling the investigation into the matter.However, after being h…
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will take over the investigation into the Chandranath Rath assassination case, officials said on Tuesday. A 7-member Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by a DIG-rank officer from the CBI, will conduct the investigation.The CBI will take over the case from the West Bengal Police later in the day.Earlier, the Bengal Police had recommended a CBI inquiry into this case.On Monday, the Bengal Police arrested three sharpshooters fro…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) The three sharpshooters who were arrested in Uttar Pradesh in the Chandranath Rath assassination case will be presented at a district court at Barasat in North 24 Parganas district on Monday.The three were arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the West Bengal Police, which is probing the murder case.Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant of the current West Bengal Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, was shot dead on May 6 by bike-borne assailants.All three of…
Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) Even 72 hours after the murder of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, the assailants remain at large, with police yet to make any arrests.Investigators say their biggest challenge is tracking the attackers’ escape route due to a lack of usable CCTV footage. Several cameras along the route adjacent to Doharia-Mathpara in Madhyamgram, through which the miscreants are believed to have fled, have been out of order for a long time, a senior …
Kolkata, May 8 (IANS) The Special Investigating Team (SIT) of the West Bengal Police, which is probing the murder of Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant (PA) to Suvednu Adhikari, has successfully located and retrieved the second motorcycle involved in the crime that occurred on the night of May 6 in Madhyamgram, North 24 Parganas.Initially, it was reported that while Rath was returning home on Wednesday night after attending a BJP programme, his vehicle was being followed by just one motorc…
Kolkata, May 7 (IANS) The body of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to BJP leader and outgoing Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, was taken to his residence in Chandipur in East Midnapore district on Thursday evening for the last rites.After the post-mortem examination at Barasat Medical College and Hospital, Chandranath Rath’s close associates and relatives left for Chandipur with the body. A large number of people gathered outside his residence in the after…
Kolkata, May 7 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Thursday strongly condemned the killing of Chandranath Rath, Personal Assistant (PA) to BJP leader and outgoing Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, and demanded a court-monitored CBI investigation into the incident.In a shocking incident late on Wednesday night, Rath was shot dead while returning home from a party programme in the Madhyamgram area of the North 24 Parganas district.Rath sustained multiple gunshot injur…
Kolkata, May 7 (IANS) A fake number plate was used in the motorcycle used in the assassination of Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant of the outgoing Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, confirmed Director General of Police (DGP) Siddh Nath Gupta. At around 1.30 a.m. on Thursday, Gupta arrived at the Viva City Hospital at Madhyamgram in the North 24 Parganas district, where Rath was declared dead after being brought there in bullet-hit condition on Wednesday n…
Kolkata, May 7 (IANS) In a shocking incident on Wednesday night, Chandranath Rath, a close aide and personal assistant of outgoing Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, was shot dead on a road in Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district while returning home from a party programme.Confirming the incident, newly elected BJP MLA and senior Calcutta High Court advocate Kaustav Bagchi claimed that the vehicle in which Rath was travelling had been followed for a consi…