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.
Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member Kalyan Banerjee, who has courted controversy for his allegation charging Governor CV Ananda Bose with storing arms and ammunition and supplying BJP leaders to attack the TMC, fired a fresh salvo accusing the governor of "incompetency in Parliamentary democracy" and turning into a "stooge of BJP".
A 21-year-old law student was found hanging in the chamber of an advocate at Kakdwip in South 24-Parganas on Wednesday night, triggering tension and outrage in the area.
The Kolkata Police on Monday arrested a book supplier in connection with a Rs 2 crore cheating case involving the procurement of religious books for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) about six years ago, officials confirmed.
The police have caught a youth, posing as a 'Special Branch Officer' of Lalbazar, the Kolkata Police headquarters, on charges of extorting money from villagers threatening to arrest them, police officials said on Saturday.
The prompt alertness of a team of police officers from the Chandannagar Commissionerate, Serampore police station, led to the recovery of a stolen newborn from Serampore Walsh Hospital within an hour of its disappearance.
