A former Diamond Harbour police officer has been booked after a Trinamool Congress councillor accused him of custodial torture, assault and the use of electric shocks during his tenure as SDPO.
The ED is expected to produce him before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Kolkata, where the agency counsel will seek his custody for further interrogation.
Trinamul Congress leader and former MLA from Panihati constituency, Nirmal Ghosh, today appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the RG Kar case.
Among those present in the rebel camp was former state minister Firhad Hakim, popularly known as Bobby, once considered a close confidant of Mamata Banerjee.
Akhil Bharatiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh, the RSS teachers’ front, staged a protest march in Burdwan on Thursday against the Supreme Court order mandating that all teachers who have not cleared TET must qualify it.
Ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections, police, in coordination with the concerned authorities, carried out an eviction drive at Porajhar along the banks of the Mahananda near Siliguri on Wednesday, demolishing several makeshift structures allegedly built on government land.
In a development that has once again brought the growing menace of cybercrime into sharp focus, son of a former Commissioner of Kolkata Police, Manoj Verma, has fallen victim to online fraud.
With an eye on the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, BJP national spokesperson and Darjeeling MP Raju Bista on Wednesday extended a formal invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the Darjeeling Hills, Terai and Dooars region.
The Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), Satish Jha, paid a courtesy visit yesterday to Peeyush Pandey, the acting Director General (DGP) of West Bengal Police, at his office in Kolkata.
Following the recent Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid controversy, SI Manoranjan Mondal, officer-in-charge (OC) of Budbud police station, has been transferred to the Special Branch (SB) of the Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) in a late-night order issued yesterday.
