Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) was conducting a raid and search operation on Monday at the residence of a Bihar-based businessman at the industrial-cum-steel township of Durgapur in West Burdwan district of West Bengal.The person at whose residence the operation is being conducted has been identified as Ghulam Raza. A six-member NIA team is reported to be conducting the operation at Raza’s residence.One of the members of the NIA team is a woman. A huge police c…
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Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) The police on Monday arrested one more person in connection with the explosion at a house in Rajarhat last week. The number of arrests in this incident has increased to three. According to the police, the Narayanpur police station in Rajarhat arrested a youth after questioning the main accused, Mohammad Shamim alias Selim.It is learnt that the name of the arrested person is Mohammad Hossain. The police arrested him from the Rajbati area of Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas…
Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) One more person has been arrested in connection with the house explosion in Rajarhat in Kolkata on Friday, taking the total number of arrests in the case to two, police said on Sunday.The arrested accused, identified as Shahenshah, is a broker who allegedly helped the main accused, Mohammad Shamim, secure a rented room in the house using a fake identity. Mohammad Shamim was arrested on Saturday from Sodepur in North 24 Parganas district. According to the police, Shahensha…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) Police on Saturday arrested the main accused, Mohammad Shamim alias Salim, in connection with the explosion at a house in Rajarhat last night, even as the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over the investigation of the case. According to the police, Shamim was arrested in Sodepur, North 24 Parganas district, and is being brought to the Narayanpur police station in Rajarhat. Three people, including the residents of the house, are being questioned. The owner of the h…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) The police on Saturday detained one person in connection with the explosion in a house in the Rajarhat area in the northern outskirts of Kolkata. The police said the prime suspect, Md Shamim alias Salim, a resident of the Kamarhati area of North 24 Parganas district, was on the run. According to the police, an explosion took place in a house in the Dakshin Narayanpur area of Rajarhat last night. One person was injured in the explosion. It is learnt that two people rented …
Kolkata, June 24 (IANS) A day after the recovery of over 3 kilograms of gold jewellery worth over Rs 4.39 crore from her house, Nadia Zilla Parishad member and Trinamool Congress leader Tina Bhowmik Saha and her husband have gone missing, said the police on Wednesday.The police have started a search for Tina Bhowmik Saha who is a close friend of arrested Trinamool Congress leader and former Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta.The police said that Tina Bhowmik Saha and her hu…
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) Former two-term Trinamool Congress MLA from Rajarhat-Newtown Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal and also the former chairman of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation in the same district, Sabyasachi Dutta, was arrested early Tuesday morning.The main charges against Dutta are involvement in corruption, extortion and rampant threatening of people in his locality.Sources aware of the development said that Dutta, currently a councillor of ward n…
Kolkata, June 6 (IANS) Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw took a ride in a metro from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport in Kolkata on Saturday. After getting off at the Noapara station, the minister took an auto to the Belghoria Expressway, in keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to use public transport to conserve fuel.A senior official said the minister travelled on the Kolkata Metro from Jai Hind Station to Noapara Station and interacted with fellow pas…
Kolkata, Feb 15 (IANS) Acting information received from confidential sources, West Bengal’s Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate has busted an illegal SIM box racket and arrested a person in connection with the case, police said on Sunday.Officers of the Commissionerate’s Intelligence Department raided flat number 5B on the fifth floor of a residential building in Hatiara in the Rajarhat area near Kolkata on Saturday and busted the ring.The items recovered by the team in this search include- 9 SIM…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) After controversies over the raid and search operations by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC)’s office and residence of its co-founder Pratik Jain last week, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, on Monday, have now been deployed for security cover from the central probe agency’s office at the Central Government Office (CAG) complex at Salt Lake in Kolkata. As of now, personnel of a private security agency were re…