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.
According to TMC sources, the MPs want a short duration discussion on the challenges being faced by Bengali-speaking migrants across different states.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) authorities have urged people who are suffering from fever to get their blood samples tested as the current hot and humid weather is ideal for the multiplication of dengue-bearing Aedes mosquitoes.
A man in Nadia’s Nakashipara has been arrested for shooting dead his wife and then staging a story of a miscreant attack to mislead the police — a desperate ploy that collapsed under interrogation.
A hearing is expected to take place next week.
Defying steady rains, a spirited gathering of residents, academicians, lawyers, and civic leaders convened near the historic Midnapore Collegiate School on Sunday, rallying under umbrellas and tarpaulins not just to escape the downpour—but to defend the dignity of their town’s heroic past.
