Kolkata: Less than 24 hours after former Bidhannagar councillor Debraj Chakraborty’s dramatic arrest in Purulia on Wednesday in an extortion case, more complaints piled up against him.Anandapur resident Sekhar Kanti Basu, a retired deputy SP, accused him of using his clout to stop police action in a cheating complaint in 2023 against two directors of…
Kolkata: Belgachhia-Kashipur MLA Ritesh Tiwari on Thursday registered a case against Dhrubajyoti Basu who was associated with the Tala Prattoy Durga Puja Committee for allegedly occupying a public ground illegally.Tiwari alleged Tala Park Prattoy had been occupying almost 2 bigha of Tala Gymkhana ground—a govt property—since 2018. He claimed Tala Park Prattoy had also secured…
Kolkata: Two bikers snatched a high-end smartphone from a young woman standing in front of the University of Calcutta’s College Street campus. The bike they were on reportedly had no numberplate on it, CCTV footage revealed.The woman claimed ever since, she had been receiving obscene messages, linking it with the snatching. The incident took place…
Kolkata: A widowed senior citizen, living alone at Banerjepara in Sarsuna, alleged police inaction against a forged tenancy agreement and her tenant running a sex trade out of the ground floor of her house. She now plans to go to the Calcutta HC.The tenant had entered the house over four years ago as a caregiver…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday questioned the “hot haste” of the police in freezing three Trinamool Congress bank accounts based on a complaint filed just a day earlier and asked HDFC Bank to file a report by next Tuesday on the amount lying in these accounts and their authorised signatories.Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya did…
Kolkata: Around 5 lakh passengers rode Kolkata Metro’s Blue Line (Dakshineswar to New Garia) every day in FY 25-26 against the Green Line’s (Howrah Maidan-Sector V) 1.5 lakh per day. Among the shorter corridors, the Purple Line (Joka-Majerhat) saw about 5,000 commuters daily, the Yellow Line (Noapara-Airport) around 3,000 and the Orange Line (New Garia-Metropoliton)…
Kolkata: A fresh complaint was lodged at the Kalighat PS against Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee for allegedly violating the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. The traffic wing of Kolkata police is probing this incident.According to the complaint, security personnel assigned to Banerjee were seen standing on an SUV’s footboards on either side with their…
Kolkata: A man died and two of his family members were critically injured after a neighbour allegedly attacked them with a cleaver in Cossipore on Wednesday morning. Police arrested the accused, Dilip Pal, and seized the weapon.While Ananta Manna died at R G Kar Hospital on Thursday, his son and another family member were being…
Kolkata: The Calcutta HC on Thursday adjourned Satadru Dutta’s appeal, challenging the interim protection granted to former minister Aroop Biswas till July 29. The division bench of ACJ Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee adjourned the matter as one of the legal points in discussion of Dutta’s case was pending consideration before a special…
Road repairing work at road to airport Kolkata: With rain forecast ahead, Metro has started urgent road repair work outside Kolkata airport to address concerns over waterlogging on the approach road. Airport officials had cited the issue at a meeting on Wednesday after passengers complained of waterlogging as they take the right side to get…
