Burdwan: An undertrial, who was accused in a rape and murder case, allegedly tried to commit suicide by setting himself on fire at a court lock up in Burdwan district on Thursday.
Sukanta Sarkar alias Ravan (37) was in the lock up of the SDJM's court in Asansol before being produced when he set himself on fire and sustained 80 per cent burn injuries, police said.
He was taken to the Asansol Sub-divisional Hospital. However, it was yet to be ascertained how he was able to set himself ablaze in the court lock up in presence of policemen....
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01:00 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Burdwan in West Bengal. Locals later rounded up the suspect and beat him up before handing him over to the police. The child underwent a medical examination on Wednesday. More details are awaited. ...
08:10 AM, Nov 15, 2012
A day after the Burdwan Child Welfare Committee ruled that Sagarika Chakraborty, the mother of the two NRI children in the custody row, was fit and sound enough to have them back, she accused her in-laws of not letting her meet her children. She said that the children's panel will decide the next legal course of action. ...
09:45 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Burdwan (WB): Three third year students, including a girl, were suspended indefinitely by authorities of the Nazrul Satabarsha Polytechnic College in Burdwan district for their alleged involvement in the gangrape of a first year student inside the college premises last week. Acting Principal Abhijit Dutta on Wednesday said Samba Mondal, Abhik Ghosh and Shobhana Das were suspended from the college indefinitely for the incident that occurred at the students' union...
10:19 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Burdwan: The principal of the Polytechnic College of Asansol was on Saturday suspended in the wake of the alleged sexual harassment of a girl student by three student union members. Rituparno Basu, Principal of Nazrul Satabarsha Polytechnic College, Rupnarayanpur, has been placed under suspension on the charge of lapse on his part with regard to the reports, state Technical Education Minister Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay said. Meanwhile, the security guard, arrested in...
09:57 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Burdwan: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old higher secondary school girl died after being pushed from a train compartment, allegedly by a stalker, at Kalna in Burdwan district on Saturday. Sujaya Basak, student of Samudragarh High School, was returning from private tuition to her Purbasthali home from Nabadwip in Katwa-bandel local along with four other girls when she confronted a youth, who had been stalking her for past several days,...
08:14 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Burdwan: A first year student of Nazrul Centenary Polytechnic college was allegedly forced to drink liquor, stripped and molested inside the student union room on October 9. The General Secretary of Trinamool Chhatra Parishad student unit of the college Shambhu Mondal allegedly forced her to drink liquor. Three other third year students of the same college - Nikhikesh Ojha, Abhi Ghosh, Bhalu - along with Shambhu stripped her naked and...
05:13 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Burdwan (WB): A six-day-old infant and the driver were killed on the spot, and three members of the family were seriously injured when a truck rammed into the car in which they were travelling on NH 2 at Saktigarh on Tuesday. Police said the boy child and his mother were released from the hospital in Burdwan earlier in the day and were on way home to Tamchini village in Memari...
09:14 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Kolkata: Three people were injured when members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) clashed in the Nandi Gram area of Asansol sub-division in the Burdwan district of West Bengal on Friday. The clashes reportedly took place over filing of nomination papers for a school managing committee election. Three CPM supporters were injured. Both parties were seen openly displaying bamboo sticks and other weapons in...
03:44 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Around seven people died and 11 others were injured when the bus they were travelling in turned turtle in Burdwan district of West Bengal. The incident happened on the Durgapur expressway on Sunday morning. The victims were mostly from Bihar's Hajipur area and had gone to visit the Kalighat temple in Kolkata. They were on their way back when the accident took place. The injured were shifted to...
10:46 AM, Sep 30, 2012
Kolkata: With the Panchayat polls in Bengal knocking at the door, two TMC workers were killed and 20 injured in political clashes in Burdwan district. The clashes between TMC and CPM began from Friday midnight. The clashes reportedly took place over establishment of territorial control. Senior TMC leader Mukul Roy said, "The political regime in Bengal may have changed. But CPM's style of attack and torture remains same as before."...
06:14 PM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: A 35-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by 15-16 men in the City Centre area of Durgapur in Burdwan district on Sunday night. The incident happened when the woman was returning from work. The police said that her husband, who was accompanying her, was beaten up by the criminals. No arrests have been made so far. The woman has filed an FIR and undergone medical tests at the sub-divisional...
02:39 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Kolkata: A bus carrying about 50 passengers has been washed away by the flash floods in Bankura in West Bengal. Reports said that 45 passengers have been rescued and the rest are still missing. The bus was going from Jhargram in West Midnapore district to Durgapur in Burdwan. Districts of south and central Bengal have been receiving heavy rains for the past two days. Heavy rainfall in the region is...
02:46 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Burdwan: A minor girl in the district was allegedly raped by a youth when she was returning from school, police said on Friday. After the rape, the girl, a class six student, returned back to her school in Islampur area and fainted after reaching the headmaster's room. On regaining consciousness, she told the school staff that she was raped by a young man whom she couldn't recognise, police said. A...
08:46 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Kolkata: A man lost his legs after he was hit by an engine while crossing the railway tracks at Katwa, Burdwan on Tuesday. Reports say that nobody from the railway or the police came forward to help the man whose legs were severed. Unattended to, the man, from Nadia district in West Bengal, lay on the tracks for nearly one hour. It was only after journalists reached the spot that...
11:34 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Burdwan: Burdwan may be the Rice Bowl of Bengal. However, its farmers are committing suicide. Here, rice is not a source of prosperity but of anguish. Spiralling debt has reportedly driven 16 farmers here to commit suicide in the past one year. Fifty-four-year-old Amiya Saha was one such farmer. The memories haunt his wife, but what hurts more is the continued government denials that something is amiss here. Says Jayanta...
04:07 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Burdwan: A man allegedly killed his wife and two daughters in West Bengal's Burdwan district on Saturday night, police sources said. Rathin Ghosh of Darbardanga village under Jamuria police station allegedly killed his wife Sonali (28) and two daughters Barsha (8) and Disha (6), the sources said. Ghosh is absconding after killing his wife and two daughters, sources said. ...
11:31 PM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: Two Trinamool Congress (TMC) activists were arrested on Sunday night in the Burdwan double murder case. CID is hopeful to soon crack the murder case of two CPI(M) leaders allegedly by a mob on February 22. The CID arrested Mantu Ghosh and Nabakumar Roy from the Mirzapur area of Burdwan, close to where the murders took place. CID has taken up the case of the killing of former...
04:27 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Burdwan: Seven persons were killed and 70 others were injured when a bus overturned near Ausgram in Burdwan district in the early hours on Saturday. The bus carrying members of a marriage party from Kolkol village in Burdwan district to Birpara in neighbouring Birbhum district overturned when the driver lost control over the speeding vehicle at around 3:30 am, police said. Among the dead were two children and many of...
09:29 AM, Mar 10, 2012
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court will monitor probe into the political killings in Burdwan, in which two CPI(M) leaders were allegedly murdered by Trinamool Congress supporters. Earlier on Friday, the court criticised the Mamata Banerjee government on delays in the probe into the Burdwan killings of last month. Chief justice Jay Narayan Patel slammed the government counsel for blaming 34 years of Left rule and 'consequent inefficiencies in the system' for...
03:59 PM, Mar 02, 2012
