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.
The construction work for the Babri Mosque at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, masterminded by the maverick and now-suspended Trinamool Congress legislator, Humayun Kabir, will start from Wednesday.
Today at the Lok Sabha, Trinamul Congress MP and party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today tore down on the central government over the Union Budget and said that it punishes the genuine taxpayers.
After the police booked two more aides of his 'personal assistant', Soumitra Khan, BJP MP from Bishnupur in Bankura has trained his guns at the top leaders of the ruling party in Bengal.
Today in New Delhi, the Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said that his party has no problem signing the no-confidence motion against the Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Birla.
The West Bengal unit of All India Fair Price Shop Dealers Federation has called for an indefinite relay hunger strike in food shops in or adjacent areas to Kolkata from 16 February against the Centre’s plan to scrap subsidies in the ration system and introduce Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), food coupons, and e-rupee.
