Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday directly suspended seven Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal on charges of dereliction of duty, without waiting for the state government to comply with the Commission’s directive.The direction to suspend these seven AEROs had been issued by the Commission to the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Nandini Chakraborty, late on Sunday evening. Howe…
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Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) Janata Unnayan Party founder Humayun Kabir, on Saturday, claimed that being a part of Trinamool Congress’ “ploy” to defeat former state Congress president in West Bengal and former five-time Lok Sabha member, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, from Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency in 2024 was one of the biggest blunders in his life. Kabir is the legislator from Bharatpur Assembly constituency, which is one of the seven Assembly constituencies under Baharampur Lok Sabha. After gettin…
Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday remanded 36 accused individuals arrested in connection with the recent violence at Beldanga in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal to judicial custody till February 19.Of the 36 accused persons, 31 were presented before the special NIA court through a virtual hearing after NIA officials failed to produce them physically due to the inability of the Murshidabad district police to pr…
Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) team probing the recent case of violence at Beldanga in minority dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, on Thursday morning, failed to produce 36 accused, arrested in the case, at a special NIA court.This is the second time the NIA has failed to produce the accused in court, and the reason is that the Murshidabad district police failed to provide adequate police escort again.Earlier, on February 5, the NIA team failed to pres…
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Calcutta High Court to independently examine whether the invocation of provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was justified in connection with the recent violence at Beldanga in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a petition filed by the West Bengal government challenging the…
Kolkata, Feb 9 (IANS) Police have initiated the process of seizing movable and immovable properties belonging to the father-in-law of the daughter of suspended Trinamool Congress leader and Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir, who has been accused of involvement in drug trafficking, sources said on Monday.Humayun Kabir, however, claimed that his family is being targeted through what he described as a politically motivated conspiracy.According to local sources, police from the Lalgola police station in M…
Kolkata, Feb 7 (IANS) A few days ago, Aamir Khan left Mumbai and arrived at Arijit Singh’s ancestral home in Jiaganj in Murshidabad district. His visit to the singer’s home, shortly after Arijit announced his retirement from playback singing, sparked considerable discussion.Amid this, Arijit and Aamir have been accused of engaging in “illegal activities”. The actor and the singer allegedly entered a government college late at night, spent a long time there, played badminton and even filmed…
Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) The accused in the unrest case in Beldanga in Murshidabad district could not be produced before a court in Kolkata on Thursday.The National Investigation Agency (NIA) pointed the finger at the state police in this matter and informed the court that it has not yet received the case diary.The judge ordered that the accused must be produced in court on February 12.On that day, the investigating officer of the state police in the Beldanga case must appear in court in person to …
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The District Magistrate, also the District Electoral Officer, of Murshidabad district in West Bengal on Saturday afternoon finally lodged an FIR against the Trinamool Congress legislator from the Farakka Assembly constituency, who has been accused of leading party activists in vandalism at a centre for hearings on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list at Farakka over a week ago.However, the FIR was registered almost 48 hours after the deadline set by the Election…
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The BJP on Saturday alleged that the recent violence in Beldanga, a minority-dominated area in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, was provoked in a pre-planned manner by falsely portraying the suicide of a local migrant worker in neighbouring Jharkhand as a case of murder.BJP IT Cell chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, cited the post-mortem report of Alauddin Sheikh, furnished by Jharkhand Police, to assert that the death was conclusi…