Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The West Bengal Police arrested the kingpin of a cyber fraud ring who duped people across the country by threatening digital arrests, said the police on Monday. The cybercrime branch of the state police arrested the cyber fraudster named Aman Singh recently during a search in Goa on Sunday.Police said that the arrested Aman Singh set up illegal call centres with the help of his associates in various parts of the country, including Kolkata and the Salt Lake area. The fraud…
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Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the West Bengal Police to ensure that former Trinamool Congress legislator and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Deputy Mayor Atin Ghosh is not arrested while his bail plea is pending before it.Ghosh’s plea for anticipatory bail in a case registered against him in connection with land-grabbing charges was scheduled to be heard by the single-judge bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh on Monday.However, for some reason, the hearin…
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The medical interns and medical students who participated in the free Sebaashray health camps organised by Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee within his Diamond Harbour constituency during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime in West Bengal, will now be questioned by the investigating officials of the state health department and also by the sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, last week, announced on the floo…
Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police initiated an investigation into a complaint filed by activist Rajiv Sarkar, citing a threat to his life from Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee.In the complaint filed at the Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police station in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, Sarkar has expressed apprehension of being murdered because of his earlier complaint launched against Abhi…
Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) West Bengal police have arrested a law officer of the Howrah Municipal Corporation and an NGO functionary on charges of allegedly extorting lakhs of rupees from hoteliers, private hospital owners and real estate developers in Howrah city, officials said on Thursday.Officers of Golabari police station have also arrested the head of an NGO who was helping the law officer. The police have started questioning the arrested people in stages. It is also being investigated whethe…
Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) The West Bengal Police have been conducting raids and search operations since Thursday morning at the offices of different panchayats and municipalities in the state to bust fake birth and death certificate rackets that mushroomed in the state before the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise began ahead of the recently concluded Assembly polls.Among the places where such raids and search operations are being conducted are Suri, Rampurhat and Dubrajpur in Birbhum distr…
Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) A single judge special bench of Calcutta High Court, that conducted an urgent hearing on Sunday afternoon on the petition filed by the Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee, challenging the demolition of his party office at Amtala in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, ordered the administration of a “status quo” in the matter till further court orders.This means that although the Calcutta High Court directed the state admin…
Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police, on Sunday, arrested a woman with a huge cache of illegal firearms and ammunition at Ahsoknagar in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.The woman has been identified as Puja Biswas, a resident of ward number 12 under Habra Municipality in the same district.Among the weapons recovered from her are six firearms, which include four 7 mm and two 9 mm pistols, 12 magazines, and 200 rounds of ammunition….
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) Alleged fictitious transactions to the tune of Rs 164 crore from one of the three frozen bank accounts of Trinamool Congress are currently under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).The central agency had already given a letter to the authorities of the private sector commercial bank concerned where the account is held seeking details of such transactions valued at Rs 164 crore, sources aware of the development said.Currently debit restrictions are imposed on a…
Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, on Wednesday gave his voice samples after being present at Bidhannagar Court in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district in connection with a case of hate speech registered against him after ignoring two consecutive notices from the same district court earlier. The Diamond Harbour MP and the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had no other option this time but…