Tension prevailed in South 24-Parganas' Falta on Tuesday after police and Central forces dispersed a protest staged by supporters of arrested local strongman Jahangir Khan, who was recently apprehended near the India-Nepal border and is currently in police custody.
Sumit Roy is an accused in an alleged land grabbing case in which former TMC MLA from Medinipur Sujoy Hazra was also involved. The notice has been issued by the Shalboni Police Station on Tuesday.
The party second-in command has been questioned for a marathon 31 hours over the last four days by the CID as well as the Enforcement Directorate.
The three-day initiative will see the participation of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari as part of the build-up to the main Yoga Day celebrations at Kolkata's Red Road.
The KMC officials had gone to his place on Tuesday afternoon to carry out measurements as part of an inspection to verify whether the property complies with approved building regulations.
All pending and upcoming projects, but especially those of the Merlin group of Sushil Mohta, the Surekha group of Pradeep Sureka and the JB group of Prakash Bachhawat, in the New Town-Rajarhat area will be subjected to intense scrutiny, say officials involved in sanction of buildings in the area.
Kolkata Police have arrested absconding BJP leader Rakesh Singh on charges of vandalism at the headquarters of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee in Kolkata last week.
The Army contention was that Trinamul Congress's protest stage continued at that place for days, although the permission from the Eastern Command for it was taken just for two days, the deadline for which expired some time back.
South 24-Parganas witnessed two shocking incidents on Tuesday morning — one involving a fatal accident involving convoy of Trinamul Congress MLA Saokat Mollah, and the other a brutal mob lynching in Canning that triggered widespread outrage.
In the name Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission of India (ECI) is trying to bring NRC through backdoor, INTTUC leader and Rajya Sabha MP Ritabrata Banerjee said today.
