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.
A biodiversity advocacy group has raised alarm over a steep drop in the number of animal species at Kolkata’s iconic Alipore Zoological Gardens, prompting an official inquiry and a legal battle, even as activists prepare for a demonstration demanding transparency.
Tensions flared in the Molandi village of West Bengal’s Kaliganj since Monday night after a police crackdown on individuals allegedly involved in protests demanding a judicial probe into the death of a young girl named Tamanna.
An unidentified commuter spraying black paint on a Metro door has alerted the city Metro authorities, who have approached the Kolkata Police for help.
Of these fake job cards, 42,738 fake job cards were found in NDA-ruled states, Trinamul leaders alleged.
Rebel Trinamul Congress leader Humayun Kabir from Bharatpur constituency in Murshidabad may float a new political party, hardly 10 months ahead of the Assembly polls in West Bengal.
