Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Nine fishermen were found dead after a fishing trawler that had gone missing earlier this month was recovered from the Bay of Bengal near the Sundarbans in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, officials said on Monday.Six other fishermen who were onboard the vessel remain untraced. According to officials, personnel from the police, the Forest Department and the Indian Coast Guard located the sunken trawler in the Raktachar area near the Chulkathi forest on Sunday. Th…
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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 11 (IANS) The West Bengal Police have arrested all five principal masterminds 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 minor girl in the area. Earlier, two persons, accused as masterminds in the case, were arrested by the police, and an insider from the Baruipur District Police, under whose jurisdiction the scene of crime comes, claimed that three oth…
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 Police informed on Thursday that 22 more suspects have been apprehended in the last 24 hours. They have been identified in connection with the lynching of a youth, attacking police, vandalism of public property, including police vehicles and railway tracks, and the outbreak of violence that occurred after the death of a minor girl, who was allegedly raped and killed in Baruipur, South 24 Parganas district.With the arrests of these 22 individuals during the …
Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) The members of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case of the death of a 12-year-old minor girl, allegedly raped and murdered, at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district last week, have arrested one more person.The arrested person has been identified as Kabir Molla. This is the fourth arrest made in the matter since Sunday afternoon after the body of the victim, a minor girl, was recovered from a pond in the Suryapur area in Baruipur.Already, Pravas Mondal, t…
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted conditional permission to a protest rally to be led by former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on various issues, including the latest death of a minor girl, reportedly raped and murdered, at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district. After being denied police permission for the rally, Banerjee approached the single-judge bench of Justice Sougata Bhattacharya earlier in the day and pleaded…
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) The 26-year-old youth who was lynched by an angry mob in Baruipur, South 24 Parganas district, after being suspected of involvement in the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, was innocent, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Tuesday.The youth, identified as Indrajit Tanti, was beaten to death on July 5 after tension erupted in the area following the recovery of the minor girl’s body from a pond. A mob, enraged over the incident, attacked Tanti, s…
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) A 17-year-old Class 10 student was allegedly hacked to death over an old dispute linked to a football match in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, with the police arresting three youths in connection with the murder, officials said on Tuesday.The deceased, identified as Prosenjit Biswas, was a resident of the Fultala area in Baruipur. According to his family members, he had a heated argument with a group of local youths a few days ago over a football game in a field …