Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to immediately seal all the areas in the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital that may be linked with the ghastly rape & murder of a junior woman doctor there in August 2024.A division bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, which had been recently assigned the matter, at the end of its first hearing, specially directed the agency to ensure that the s…
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Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), Supriya Mukherjee, had filed a complaint with the West Bengal Women and Child Welfare Minister, Agnimitra Paul, against the Officer-in-Charge of a police station. ASI Supriya Mukherjee stated that miscreants were smuggling diesel with the help of Officer-in-Charge of Andal Police Station.The ASI said that when she tried to stop it, the senior police officer harassed her and she was given a less importan…
Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) The new and the ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday announced the suspension of three Indian Police Service (I.P.S.) officers including a former Commissioner of the Kolkata Police in connection with the rape and murder of a lady junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata within the hospital premises in August 2024.Those suspended include the-then Commissioner of Kolkata Police, Vineet Kumar Goyal, the-then Dep…
Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that standing with and nominating the mother of the R.G. Kar rape-murder victim as a party candidate in the West Bengal Assembly elections has proved the Bharatiya Janata Party’s commitment towards women’s safety in the state.Swapna Debnath, the mother of the woman doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata who was raped and murdered within the hospital premises in August 2024, is the BJP candida…
Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Monday, issued notices for interrogation to Kolkata Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Shantanu Sinha Biswas and his two sons in connection with a money-laundering syndicate linked to notorious and absconding gangster Sona Pappu.Incidentally, on Sunday, the ED officials conducted a marathon raid and search operations at the residence of Sinha Biswas at Fern Road in South Kolkata and at a coaching centre owned by one of his sons.Insid…
Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, kept her eyes closed when women in different pockets of the state were being tortured and shamed by goons backed by the ruling Trinamool Congress, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday.“The entire country was ashamed over the ghastly rape and murder of a lady junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital. At Sandeshkhali, the Trinamool Congress goons had exploited and shamed women. Infiltrators have becom…
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) A new bench of the Calcutta High Court was constituted on Thursday to hear the matter of the gruesome rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital here in August 2024.The new bench comprises Justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Rai Chattopadhayay.The new bench was constituted because earlier this month, the previous division bench of Justices Debangshu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi recused itself from hearing the matter because it was no longer …
Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, allotted the R.G. Kar rape & murder case by then Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, on Wednesday recused itself from hearing the matter.According to the division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Md Shabbar Rashidi, when the matter was allotted for hearing to it by then Chief Justice Sivagnanam, it was hearing criminal cases.However, since this division bench does not hear criminal cases anymore, the judges decided …