Kolkata, March 28 (IANS) As many as 30 people have been arrested by West Bengal Police in connection with tension and violence over a Ram Navami procession at Jangipur in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district, an official said on Saturday.Although the situation was quickly brought under control following prompt joint action by the state police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), the area had, for some time, virtually turned into a battlefield.Several people were injured in the clashes,…
Latest Murshidabad district News & Updates
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) The Election Commission has taken strict action against seven central force personnel following allegations of dereliction of duty, an insider in the Commission said on Wednesday.The personnel have faced disciplinary action while on election security duty in West Bengal. Two of them have already been taken into custody, while the remaining five have been transferred to another state. Orders have been issued to initiate departmental inquiries against all seven individuals…
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Like the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, suspended Trinamool Congress legislator Humayun Kabir, who recently floated his own political party, will contest simultaneously from two Assembly constituencies in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district in the forthcoming two-phase Assembly polls in the state next month.However, he will not contest from the Bharatpur Assembly constituency in Murshidabad district, from where he was elected in 2021. Inste…
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) Humayun Kabir, the suspended Trinamool Congress legislator from Bharatpur Assembly constituency in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, has changed the name of his newly floated political party, after the Election Commission of India (ECI) rejected the name proposed by him.The original name proposed by Kabir was ‘Janata Unnayan Party (JUP)’. However, after the ECI rejected it, Kabir decided to change it and renamed his party as the ‘Amm Janata Unnayan P…
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) After a prolonged tug-of-war, the West Bengal Police on Friday agreed to hand over the case diary in the recent Beldanga violence case in minority-dominated Murshidabad district to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the matter following clearances from the Calcutta High Court as well as the Supreme Court.The state police also informed a trial court in Kolkata of its decision to transfer the case diary to the NIA. The court subsequently remanded seven…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) The Lalgola police station in West Bengal on Thursday sent a notice to Raihan Ali, the son-in-law of suspended Trinamool Congress leader and Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir, in a heroin smuggling case. He has been ordered to appear before the investigating officer by 11 am on February 28. According to police sources, the notice was handed over to his family members as Raihan was not at home. Humayun Kabir claimed that Raihan is being framed in a false case. “If arrested, the…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) After three failed attempts, the NIA will again try to produce the seven accused, arrested in West Bengal’s Beldanga unrest case, in a city court on Thursday.This would be the fourth attempt to produce the accused in court, as on the previous three occasions, the state police did not provide the necessary escort to bring the accused from Murshidabad district to Kolkata.The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which has been probing the Beldanga unrest as per the Calcutta H…
Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) A child was wounded when a primary teacher allegedly opened fire on the school kids playing outside his home in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, and the accused has been arrested, police said on Saturday. According to local sources, there is a large field next to the house of accused teacher Sameer Kumar Mandal in Banipur village. Like every day on Friday afternoon, about 10 to 12 children were playing cricket and football. During the game, the ball hit the door and wal…
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday approached the Calcutta High Court seeking its intervention in directing the West Bengal Police to submit the case diary of last month’s violence at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district to the central agency officials probing the matter.In its petition, the NIA counsel had argued that the state police was refusing to hand over the case diary in the matter despite the Supreme Court’s Division Bench of Chief …
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA), on Thursday, sent an e-mail to the police in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, seeking the case diary in last month’s violence in Beldanga, NIA sources said on Thursday. It is alleged that no action has been taken to hand over the case diary in connection with the Beldanga violence case so far.Although the central probe agency claimed that the Supreme Court has ordered the case diary in the Beldanga violence case to be submitted b…