The investigation has expanded beyond the deaths of a young couple, with police examining alleged drug use, party gatherings and financial transactions linked to a Kolkata flat.
Goutam Das landed himself in major controversy after she shared an image of himself brandishing a firearm on social media.
These 82 officers were moved to district postings in 2016 after they allegedly followed Election Commission of India (ECI) guidelines during the Assembly elections instead of informal directions reportedly issued by ruling party functionaries at the time.
The Kolkata Police has terminated Biswas after his arrest last week by the central agency.
Since the BJP came to power in West Bengal, law enforcement agencies have launched multiple actions against individuals accused of involvement in violence, intimidation and other criminal offences allegedly committed during the previous regime.
Kolkata police uncovered a murder plot in which a businessman was killed, his body stuffed into a trolley bag, and an attempt made to dispose of it on Kalyani Expressway, near Khardah in North 24-Parganas.
The Kolkata Police have summoned CPI(M)'s youth leader and former state secretary of the Students' Federation of India (SFI), Srijan Bhattacharya, for interrogation regarding the March 1 ruckus at Jadavpur University.
One person was arrested on charges of allegedly molesting a 15-year-old inside the intensive care unit (ICU) at the state government-run Diamond Harbour (DH) Medical College and Hospital in South 24-Parganas district on Tuesday night.
The personnel of Manikchak police station in Malda district on Friday arrested a civic volunteer attached to the same police station on charges of raping a woman who had been sick for quite some time.
The agitating doctors are not happy with the CBI probe because all the culprits besides the convicted Sanjay Roy are roaming free.
