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…
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Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has sharply questioned the role of I-PAC in the party’s recent electoral setbacks and blamed “outsiders” for causing internal harm to the organisation. In an exclusive interview with IANS, the veteran parliamentarian, who has been associated with the TMC for over 40 years, criticised the party’s growing dependence on external agencies and highlighted how certain individuals who joined after the party came to power h…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) investigation into the alleged criminal-linked syndicate has revealed that arrested Kolkata Police officer Shantanu Sinha Biswas is yet to produce his two mobile phones before investigating officers, an insider at the central investigation agency said on Monday. Former Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha had thrown his mobile phones into a pond during an ED search at his Murshidabad residence to destroy evidence in an SSC recruitm…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The new Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled West Bengal government on Monday took an in-principle decision to implement the state’s crucial flood control-cum-drainage project, popularly known as the “Ghatal Master Plan”, jointly with the Union government, with the expenditure to be shared equally between the Centre and the state.The project had long remained stalled because of the reluctance of the previous Trinamool Congress-ruled and Ma…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) A bulldozer drive was carried out on Monday at a multi-storey building under construction by Trinamool Congress leader and promoter-real estate developer Raju Naskar, triggering tension in the area.People who had booked flats in the project turned furious and allegedly thrashed a close associate of Raju Naskar after an argument broke out in front of his office. Police and central forces reached the spot to bring the situation under control.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary of Alipurduar district, Dulal Dey, was arrested on charges of beating up a BJP leader Lakshmi Das, said the police on Monday. The injured BJP leader is undergoing treatment at Alipurduar District Hospital while the police arrested Dulal on the basis of a written complaint filed in Kamakhyaguri of Kumargram block on Sunday night.The BJP alleged that when Lakshmi Das went to the Customer Service Point of Dulal’s daughter’s bank for a Dire…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on Monday, granted 10 days of additional time to Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, to reply to notices served regarding the 17 properties owned by him. Abhishek Banerjee is also the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The KMC had recently issued the notices. Municipality officials also put up a notice on the wall of his house on Harish Mukherjee Road in so…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Falta in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district made it to the national lexicon last month when a political contest, framed almost like a cinematic clash with a “Singham vs. Pushpa” narrative, caught the people’s imagination. The “Singham” label was for Ajay Pal Sharma, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer known for his tough policing style and reputation as an “encounter specialist” in Uttar Pradesh. He was deployed as an Election Commission police obser…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The cops of New Market Police Station under the central division of the Kolkata Police, on Monday morning, issued summons to the Member-Mayor in Council of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Baiswanor Chattopadhyay, on charges of heckling and physically assaulting the Corporation’s secretary, Kishore Kumar Biswas on Friday.A police complaint was lodged by Kishore Kumar Biswas at the New Market Police Station, under whose jurisdiction the KMC Building in central Kolka…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The process has begun to recall those Kolkata Police personnel who were transferred to punishment postings in districts ten years ago, in 2016, by the previous Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government for reportedly playing an impartial role in the Assembly elections that year by strictly following the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s guidelines and ignoring the verbal directions of the ruling party leaders.An insider from the city police said that as many as 82 ju…