Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Tirthankar Ghosh, the defeated Trinamool Congress candidate from Panihati Assembly constituency in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal in the recently concluded election, was arrested on Monday on charges of involvement in various anti-social activities, such as alleged lottery scam, extortion and threatening people with firearms.Tirthankar, the son of Nirmal Ghosh, the former Chief Whip of Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal Assembly during the previous Mamat…
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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, June 25 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, which on May 21 directed a fresh probe into the R.G. Kar rape and murder case by a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Thursday slammed the central agency for conducting what it described as a “lackadaisical” probe so far. As directed by the division bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, the CBI submitted a progress report on Thursday. After e…
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday questioned two suspended Indian Police Service (IPS) officers in connection with the R.G. Kar rape and murder case, and also issued a notice to the suspended former Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal for questioning. The two suspended IPS officers questioned by the CBI on Friday afternoon were the erstwhile deputy commissioners (North Division), Abhishek Gupta, and (Central Division), Indira Mukherjee.CBI off…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) A mishap took place inside the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in West Bengal’s Kolkata when an elevator cable snapped during maintenance work due to which three labourers sustained serious injuries on Tuesday, officials said. According to airport authority officials, the incident took place around 1 p.m. at elevator number 34, located in the airport’s bus lounge. It was told that this elevator had been out of service for several days to undergo repairs. T…
Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) West Bengal Governor R.N. Ravi on Saturday ordered a departmental probe against Resident Medical Officer (RMO) Dr Avik Dey, whose name had surfaced both in connection with the rape and murder of a woman junior doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata in August 2024 and the multi-crore financial irregularities case linked to the institution.Dey, considered a close confidant of former R.G. Kar principal Sandip Ghosh, was also arrested by the C…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed a fresh probe into the R.G. Kar rape and murder case by a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to be headed by an officer in the rank of Joint Director of the central probe agency.The division bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh passed the order on Thursday afternoon after considering the demands raised by the victim’s family mem…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) A new division bench of the Calcutta High Court, Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, will hear on Tuesday the case on the 2024 ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital.As per the cause list of the Calcutta High Court, the hearing in the matter will start at 1 p.m.After the previous division bench headed by Justice Rajasekhar Mantha recused from hearing the matter on May 12, observing that “this impor…
Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack against Trinamool Congress while referring to the issue of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s intervention while the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids and search operations at the office of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of I-PAC’s co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata earlier this year. However, through referring to that event while addressing a campaign rally a…
Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) Every individual, regardless of their influence, who is connected to the larger conspiracy surrounding the R.G. Kar rape and murder case will be identified and held accountable after the formation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated during a campaign rally at the Panihati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district on Friday.Incidentally, the ancestral residence of the woman doctor, who was…