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…
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Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress faction led by the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday approached a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, challenging the actions initiated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against three bank accounts held by the party with a private sector bank with a combined deposit amount of Rs 440 crore. The case in relation to these three bank accounts are complicated following the parallel investigations by the West Bengal …
Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday gave an ultimatum to Trinamool Congress General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, asking him to appear at Bidhannagar Court and give his voice samples to sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), failing which the single-judge Bench would withdraw protection from coercive police action against the leader.The court asked Abhishek Banerjee to appear at Bidhannagar Court in North 24 Paragans district of West Bengal by 2 p.m. on Jul…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Thursday recorded the statement of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from the Gosaba Assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district, Bikarna Naskar, in connection with the case registered against Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, who has been accused of making hate speeches ahead of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) The investigation into the murder of Duttabad-based gold merchant Swapan Kamilya has gathered fresh momentum, with a forensic team visiting a house in New Town near Kolkata that police suspect may have been the crime scene.The Bidhannagar police have already formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the murder case. On Thursday, the Bidhannagar police, the Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal police, the cybercrime and forensic teams went to the house in New To…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted the Trinamool Congress faction, led by Mamata Banerjee, conditional and limited access to three party accounts that have been subjected to debit restrictions by the bank authorities, following directives from the police and later from the Enforcement Directorate (ED).A petition filed by the Trinamool Congress challenging the debit restriction on these three bank accounts with total deposits of Rs 440 crore…
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) Hours after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday issued a statement alleging dubious transactions through three bank accounts of the Trinamool Congress, on which debit restrictions have already been imposed, the former ruling party in West Bengal issued a statement rejecting the allegations made by the central agency.The Trinamool Congress also described the ED’s action relating to the freezing of its three bank accounts, with total deposits of Rs 440 crore, as po…
Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court has rejected the “exemption petition” from former Trinamool Congress legislator Saokat Molla seeking exemption from the criminal cases registered against him by both the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the West Bengal Police on various charges like involvement in bomb blast, corruption, extortion and sexual offences. Incidentally, on June 5 this year, the NIA arrested Molla in connection with the bomb blast at Bhangar…
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), whose officials conducted day-long raid and search operations at multiple locations in Kolkata since Tuesday in connection with its probe into transactions linked to three bank accounts of the Trinamool Congress on which “debit restrictions” were recently imposed following directions from the West Bengal Police, is specially examining doubtful debit transactions worth Rs 150 crore from these three bank accounts. In the simultaneous raid an…