Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Prashant Barman, the absconding former BDO of Raiganj Block in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal, accused in the case of the abduction and murder of gold merchant Swapan Kamilya was granted bail by a district court on Tuesday as the investigating officers failed to furnish the necessary documents related to the abduction-cum-murder case to the court. Barman’s arrest, which happened in New Town on the northern outskirts of Kolkata around midnight on Monday, was coinc…
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Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo and former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal over its eviction drives against street vendors and hawkers. In an X post, Banerjee said she was “angry and deeply pained” at the treatment meted out to hawkers.On International Hawkers Day, Banerjee said: “The BJP government had unleashed atrocities on hawkers shortly after coming to power, demolishing their stalls and fo…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) A single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday withdrew the interim protection against any coercive action, including arrest, granted earlier to Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress candidate in Falta Assembly constituency, by a regular single-judge bench. Last week, Calcutta High Court’s regular single-judge bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya granted interim protection to Khan till May 24, the day the results for the repolling in Falta were decl…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Days after senior MP, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, resigned as Trinamool’s Barasat organisational district president, she attended Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s administrative meeting on Tuesday, sparking speculation about her next move. Not only Dastidar, but three Trinamool MLAs from North 24 Parganas district were also present at the administrative meeting at Kalyani in Nadia district.Kakoli attended the meeting with the administrative officers of North 24 Parganas, Nadia…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Two Trinamool Congress leaders have been arrested in two separate districts of West Bengal on charges of corruption, the police said on Tuesday. The police have arrested the Chairman of Baduria municipality, Dipankar Bhattacharya in Baduria of North 24 Parganas district. Nearly Rs 80 lakh and several bundles of tarpaulins bought with government funds were recovered from him.Meanwhile, large amount of government goods were also recovered from the house of Trinamool regional…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested 15 protesters in a special operation conducted in West Bengal’s Malda district in connection with last month’s road blockade incidents and the alleged illegal detention of judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of electoral rolls ahead of the Assembly elections in the state. The NIA had taken over the investigation following directions from the Election Commission of India after the …
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Even after his arrest, former Block Development Officer (BDO) Prashant Barman allegedly tried to assert his influence and misbehaved with police personnel through the night, officials said on Tuesday.Barman, accused in the abduction and murder of gold trader Swapan Kamilya at Salt Lake’s Dattabad last year and on the run, was arrested around midnight on Monday in New Town on the outskirts of Kolkata in what police described as a coincidental development.According to poli…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) The district-level core committees of the BJP in West Bengal will maintain coordination with the new state administration to ensure smooth implementation of various development projects, especially those which are centrally-sponsored.Insiders from the Bengal unit of the BJP said that on May 15, the party’s central observer for the state, Sunil Bansal had directed the completion of setting up of district level core committees at the earliest.“Already the names of the re…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Prashant Barman, the long-absconding former Block Development Officer (BDO) of Raiganj Block in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal, who was accused in the case of the abduction and murder of gold merchant Swapan Kamilya at Salt Lake’s Dattabad in Kolkata last year, has finally been arrested. Burman’s arrest, which happened in New Town on the northern outskirts of Kolkata around midnight on Monday, was coincidental and dramatic.According to information passed down by th…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) A crucial hearing is scheduled at Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya on Tuesday as the interim protection given by the same bench last week to Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress candidate in Falta Assembly constituency, against police action, including arrest, has ended on May 24, the day when the results for the repolling were declared.With several FIRs registered against Khan in relation to voters’ intimidation before and on t…