Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) Two bodies were recovered in the Mahamaytala area of Garia, on the southern outskirts of Kolkata, on Tuesday, in West Bengal. A woman was hacked to death inside her beauty parlour by a Kashmiri man, who later committed suicide. Police said the incident appears to stem from a strained relationship.According to a senior police officer, the deceased woman has been identified as Rupbani Das, aged approximately 50. She ran a beauty parlour in Mahamaytala, under th…
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Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The bodies of 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata have been identified through DNA mapping and handed over to their families from the Katapukur morgue on Saturday. Initially, it was believed that the 18 bodies handed over to the families were among the 27 persons reported missing, which had led to the assumption that the death toll had risen to 45. However, official sources later clarified that the death toll remains at 27. The 1…
Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The bodies of 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata have been identified through DNA mapping and handed over to their families on Saturday. With this, the official death toll in the tragedy has risen to 45, while nine persons are still reported missing.Police sources said the identification was confirmed after matching DNA samples of the remains with those provided by the victims’ family members. Among the 18 deceased, 16 were fr…
Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) Amid all round-criticisms, the West Bengal Police on Saturday formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the devastating fire at the factory-cum-warehouse of Wow Momo in Anandapur on the southern outskirts of Kolkata earlier this week, where the death toll has already touched 25, with several others still missing.The decision came after Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a public rally at Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas district earlier in the day, accused the s…
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday gave conditional approval to the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, to conduct a protest march on Friday near the site of the burned warehouses in Anandapur, located on the southern outskirts of Kolkata, where many people have died and several others are still unaccounted for.Earlier in the day, LoP Suvendu Adhikari approached the single-judge Bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh…
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Thursday, petitioned a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to visit the site of the burned warehouse in Anandapur, located in the southern outskirts of Kolkata, where the remains of 21 individuals have been found, and several others are still unaccounted for.Adhikari approached the Calcutta High Court after the police imposed prohibitory orders in a 100-metre radiu…
Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) The death toll in the fire that broke out in two warehouses in Anandapur in the southern outskirts of Kolkata has reached 16, said the police on Wednesday. At the same time, several people are still missing, and a search is on to trace them.Meanwhile, police have arrested Gangadhar Das, the owner of the burnt-down decorator’s warehouse. He was arrested on charges of death due to negligence.The decorator’s warehouse was adjacent to a Momo company’s warehouse, which was also…