Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) A husband attempted suicide after hacking his wife to death on the road in broad daylight. The incident took place in Sodepur, North 24 Parganas district, on Wednesday. According to the police, the deceased woman has been identified as Geeta Das, aged 33. Her husband hacked her with a sharp weapon on School Road in the Future Gate area of Sodepur. She soon collapsed on the road. The incident took place in front of locals. Before anyone could do anything, the young man also…
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Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) The members of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case of the death of a 12-year-old minor girl, allegedly raped and murdered, at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district last week, have arrested one more person.The arrested person has been identified as Kabir Molla. This is the fourth arrest made in the matter since Sunday afternoon after the body of the victim, a minor girl, was recovered from a pond in the Suryapur area in Baruipur.Already, Pravas Mondal, t…
Kolkata, July 6 (IANS) The suspension period of three Indian Police Service (IPS) officers accused of dereliction of duty in connection with the rape and murder of a woman doctor at state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, within the hospital premises in August 2024, on Monday was extended by another 120 days.West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced the suspension of the three accused IPS officers in the case, namely the-then Commissioner of Kolkata Police, Vineet…
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) The West Bengal Police on Wednesday arrested former Trinamool Congress councillor from Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation in North 24 Parganas district, Debraj Chakraborty, in relation to an ongoing disproportionate assets case registered against him. Last week, the Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Jay Sengupta rejected the anticipatory bail plea from Chakraborty, the husband of former Trinamool Congress MLA Aditi Munshi, an acclaimed devotional singer in…
Kolkata, June 25 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, on Thursday approached a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging the notice from the Criminal Investigation (CID) of the West Bengal Police for the collection of his voice samples on June 30 as directed by a district court in North 24 Parganas district earlier this week.The collection of the voice samples of Abhishek Banerjee, the nephew of former West Bengal Chie…
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) The cyber police in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district has launched a detailed investigation into three bank accounts belonging to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) that were recently placed under debit freeze following police directions.Sources familiar with the investigation at the Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police Station under the Bidhannagar City Police said officers are scrutinising inward and outward transactions in these accounts over the past five years. The probe …
Kolkata, June 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader and Pradhan of Shiuli Gram Panchayat, Arun Kumar Ghosh and seven other members have resigned from their posts, reducing the strength of the party in this gram panchayat in the Barrackpore area of North 24 Parganas district. They went to the BDO office of Barrackpore Block II and submitted their resignations. The outgoing Pradhan claimed that this decision was taken out of respect for the people’s verdict in the recently concluded state Assembly e…
Kolkata, June 13 (IANS) Enforcement Directorate (ED) teams were conducting parallel search operations at multiple locations in and around Kolkata, including the two residences of Trinamool Congress legislator Madan Mitra, in connection with the multi-crore cash-for-municipality jobs case in West Bengal.Of the two residences of Mitra, where the raids and search operations are being conducted, one is at Bhabanipur in south Kolkata and the other at Kamarhati in the northern outskirts of Kolkata. Mi…
Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) Cash amounting to Rs 1.44 crore was recovered from a private English-medium school in Kanchrapara in North 24 Parganas district, police said on Thursday.The recovery was made after a search operation was launched at the school on Wednesday night. Till 4 30 a.m. on Thursday, 1 crore 44 lakh rupees were found. Apart from the cash, a packet of condoms was also found in a cupboard in the school’s ‘sick room’, said the police.The police said two people have been arrested in co…
Kolkata, June 7 (IANS) The Bidhannagar (South) Police Station in North 24 Parganas district, on Sunday, sent a fresh notice of interrogation to the former West Bengal Sports Minister, Aroop Biswas, for questioning over an FIR filed against him for vandalism at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Salt Lake during Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour on December 13 last year.Biswas has been asked to appear at the Bidhannagar (South) Police Station by Monday. This is the second notice sent by the police to B…