Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) One more person was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the lynching of a youth on July 5 at Baruipur in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district after the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl.The arrested person has been identified as Sakim Lashkar. He will be presented at a district court in South 24 Parganas later in the day, and the public prosecutor will seek his police custody.With the arrest of Lashkar, the total number of arrests in the case had incr…
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Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) The police have arrested a person for taking a minor girl to a rented house in South 24 Parganas district’s Baruipur in West Bengal and trying to rape her. A senior police officer of Baruipur Police District said the minor had run away from her home in Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas district. She was lured by the accused after she met him at Sealdah station.The accused has been produced before the Baruipur court on Tuesday, where the police sought his custody for furthe…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) CPI-M leader Layek Ali was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police on Sunday night in connection with the unrest in Baruipur. Ali had contested this year’s Assembly election as the Left Front candidate from the Baruipur Paschim constituency.Police did not specify the charges under which he was arrested. However, according to sources, investigators found his alleged links to incidents of road blockades, vandalism and attacks on police personnel durin…
Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) A home tutor who is accused of sexually assaulting a 12th-grade student by calling her to his home has been arrested by the police, said a senior police officer on Sunday. The incident was reported by the Lake Town police station in north Kolkata.According to the police, the tutor called the student to his home for tutoring about four days ago. The girl alleged that the tutor wanted to spend time with her under the pretext of teaching. He gave her a drink laced with drugs…
Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) Two more persons have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a youth, 26-year-old Indrajit Tanti, on July 5 at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district over the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl following search operations.With these two fresh arrests, the total number of arrests in the case had increased to seven. The two, arrested after a night-long search, will be presented at a district court in South 24 Parganas later in the day, and the public p…
Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) West Bengal Police on Sunday changed the investigating officer (IO) for the case of the 12-year-old minor girl, allegedly raped and murdered at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district and appointed a more experienced and senior-ranking officer.Santanu Mukhopadhyay, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) rank officer, has been appointed to investigate the matter. The previous two IOs, who were replaced in succession, were inspector-ranking officers.The latest change in the…
Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) President Subhankar Sarkar said on Friday that the growing factionalism within the Trinamool Congress is a “Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ploy to create a shadow Opposition in the state which will actually operate as per the instructions of the ruling party in the state”. “Previously we used to say that Trinamool Congress and the BJP were two sides of the same coin. Our conjecture was clear after the West Bengal Assembly elect…
Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the West Bengal Police probing the death of a 12-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped and murdered at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district, is also probing a possible angle that could establish links between some of the accused arrested in the case and a girls’ trafficking racket operating in the area.Although refusing to divulge detailed information for the sake of the investigation, an officer from the Baruipur Police District…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Thursday entrusted the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe and submit a report on the encounter killing of Pravas Mondal, one of the four persons accused in the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district.At the same time, an insider from the state secretariat of Nabanna said that a judicial probe as per norms has already been initiated into the matter, which will continue.Mandal was ki…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the West Bengal Minister of Panchayat Affairs and Rural Development, Dilip Ghosh, on Thursday described the “intellectuals” condemning and protesting against the encounter-killing of an accused in the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old minor girl at Barupur in South 24 Parganas district as hypocrites.“These intellectuals are not just hypocrites. There are real anti-social elements who are also responsible for the i…