New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) Delhi Police Special Cell on Thursday apprehended a notorious gangster named Jagdish from West Bengal’s Malda district after an extensive inter-state pursuit. The arrest is being dubbed as a key breakthrough against organised crime in the capital.The accused, a key member of the overseas-based Harry Boxer alias Golu gang, is wanted in multiple firing cum extortion cases in the Delhi-NCR region.Last month, his prime associate Vikas alias Chuhiya was arrested in Uttar P…
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Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) Nearly a year after they were allegedly pushed into Bangladesh on suspicion of being infiltrators, Bengali migrant worker Sweety Bibi and four others from Paikar village in Birbhum district returned to India on Wednesday along with her two minor children.Among those who returned was Danesh Sheikh, the husband of another migrant worker, Sonali Bibi. The family had alleged that they were pushed into Bangladesh from Assam after being detained on suspicion of being illegal inf…
Kolkata, July 6 (IANS) The police have arrested a person from Bihar on charges of raping a minor in West Bengal’s Malda district, said a senior police officer of the district on Monday. The incident comes close on the heels of the alleged rape and murder of a minor in South 24 Parganas district’s Baruipur area.This time, the police have taken prompt action in this incident. The accused was arrested from Purnia in Bihar, within hours of the news of the incident coming to light.The seriously ill m…
Kolkata, June 30 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed charge sheets against 23 individuals in two cases related to the harassment of judges engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work at Mothabari in minority-dominated Malda district of West Bengal earlier this year. The chargesheet was filed at a special court of the NIA in Kolkata.Sources aware of the development said that 23 individuals have been charged under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (B…
Kolkata, June 25 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday said it has arrested Congress leader Sayem Chowdhury in connection with the alleged harassment of judges engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work in West Bengal’s Malda district earlier this year.Chowdhury, a former Congress candidate from the Mothabari Assembly constituency, was taken into custody after prolonged questioning at the agency’s Kolkata office.The case pertains to the siege of the Block Developme…
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) A local leader from West Bengal’s Malda district has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a case linked to the pre-poll SIR-related mob blockades, violence and detention of judicial officers that took place in April, officials said on Thursday.The arrested individual, Sayem Chowdhary alias Babu Chowdhary, is a resident of Mothbari in Malda. He was taken into custody by an NIA team after he was questioned at the agency’s branch office in Kolkata.Ac…
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) Continuing with its investigation into the dozen cases registered in connection with the Malda pre-poll Special Intensive Revision (SIR)-related mob blockades, violence and detention of judicial officers, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested two more accused persons in two distinct cases. The accused, identified as Maulana Imran Ali and Rinku SK, have been taken into custody over illegal detention of judicial officers, blockade of a National Highw…
Kolkata, June 2 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charge sheeted 31 accused in four separate cases related to road blockades and the alleged illegal detention of judicial officers during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal’s Malda district.The charge sheets were filed before the NIA Special Court in Kolkata based on digital and technical evidence, documentary records, witness statements and other material collected during the investigation into…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kolkata on Tuesday remanded 15 more accused persons arrested by the central agency officers in connection with the West Bengal judicial officers’ hostage case earlier this year to 14 days of judicial custody. In the night-long operations started from Monday night which continued till Tuesday morning, the NIA sleuths arrested these 15 individuals accused in connection with the April 1 incident in which seven judicial of…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested 15 protesters in a special operation conducted in West Bengal’s Malda district in connection with last month’s road blockade incidents and the alleged illegal detention of judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of electoral rolls ahead of the Assembly elections in the state. The NIA had taken over the investigation following directions from the Election Commission of India after the …