Kolkata, July 6 (IANS) Police have recovered illegal firearms and cartridges from Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas once again and arrested one person in connection with it. Based on a tip-off received from a confidential source, the police of Nazat police station in Basirhat police district arrested the person with weapons on Sunday night.The name of the arrested person is Salauddin Molla. A one-shot pipe gun and seven rounds of fresh cartridges were recovered from the arrested person.According…
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Kolkata, June 6 (IANS) Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday praised the West Bengal Police after a large cache of illegal firearms was recovered from a pond in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district.In a post on X, Adhikari said, “Kudos to the West Bengal Police for a Major Breakthrough. On precise intelligence inputs, the Special Task Force (STF) conducted extensive raids across multiple locations near Sarberia Bazaar in Kumrakhali, Basanti, and Sandeshkhali areas. Forces have succes…
Kolkata, June 6 (IANS) A huge cache of firearms and cartridges hidden in a pond belonging to a Trinamool Congress leader was recovered by the Special Task Force (STF) of the West Bengal Police in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district on Saturday morning, officials said.Based on a tip-off from a secret source, the STF investigators raided the area and searched on Saturday morning. The officers, during the search, uncovered a cache of weapons in the pond. However, the owner of the pond, Trina…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said that 10 people, accused in post-poll violence cases in West Bengal following the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, have been arrested.The ten arrested accused individuals include Kader Molla, the most trusted aide of Sheikh Shahjahan, the notorious and now-suspended Trinamool Congress leader from Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district. Shahjahan is currently in jail after the CBI identified him as the mastermind behin…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) Two female leaders of the Trinamool Congress, who are closely associated with the arrested party’s strongman Sheikh Shahjahan, have been apprehended in Sandeshkhali, located in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, in relation to the violent assault on ED officials that occurred in 2024.This action comes after the police stepped up the investigation in the Sandeshkhali case following a change of government in the state.Among those arrested are Sandeshkhali-I Panch…
Kolkata, May 4 (IANS) Jubilant scenes were witnessed across parts of Kolkata and other regions of West Bengal on Monday as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters celebrated early trends showing the party taking a lead in the Assembly election results.Outside several counting centres in Kolkata, large numbers of BJP workers, including women and youth, gathered with party flags, dancing to music and raising slogans as initial trends pointed towards a strong performance by the party. Members of th…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) With law-and-order situation in West Bengal under question in the ongoing Assembly election, the rape and murder at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and the Sandeshkhali exploitation and repression in North 24 Parganas district have re-emerged as major campaign issues ahead of the second phase of polls to be held on Wednesday.Opposition parties in the state have been raising the episodes to underscore allegations of intimidation, violence, and crime aga…
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 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 single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Thursday, rejected the bail plea of Sheikh Shahjahan, the suspended Trinamool Congress leader from Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal and the principal accused in the case of the assault on the Enforcement Department (ED) officials in January 2024.The ED officials and their escorting Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel were attacked and severely assaulted by Shahjahan’s supporters when …