Kolkata: The probe in the West Bengal chit fund case has widened its ambit to the previous Left government. On Wednesday, the police questioned the top aides of two former Left ministers.
Sources said that the police questioned Anjan Bhattacharya, the assistant of former Housing Minister Gautam Deb and Ganesh Dey, the CA of former Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta.
Sources said that the police were looking if illegal pay-offs were made.
Asim Dasgupta had earlier blamed the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for colluding with Saradha group promoter Sudipta Sen....
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07:54 PM, May 01, 2013
Kolkata: Academicians from across the country on Saturday expressed "horror" at the "brutal" police assault on students leading to the death of SFI leader Sudipta Gupta in police custody and demanded an "impartial" probe into the incident. In a statement, 45 educationists from leading institutes like Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Punjab University and Viswa Bharati University condemned the "unprovoked singular attack" on a "peaceful" students demonstration. The scholars said they...
01:59 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Kolkata: Family members of Students Federation of India (SFI) leader Sudipto Gupta on Friday expressed disgust over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dubbing his death in police custody as a "petty" and "small" matter, and alleged he was "murdered" by police. "This is murder. The bus driver has reportedly said that he (Gupta) was forced out of the vehicle and beaten up. There were so many injury marks on...
04:30 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Kolkata: The family of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta is expected to meet West Bengal Governor on Friday. Sudipto was killed after being allegedly beaten up by police during a crackdown on a SFI protest earlier this week. Citing dissatisfaction with police investigations, his family has demanded a CBI probe. The police, however, insists that Sudipto died after hitting a lamp post. To back up their claims, the Kolkata Police on...
05:17 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Kolkata: The Kolkata Police on Thursday stated that the final post-mortem report of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta was yet to come out and that the initial report had shown that the 23-year-old student died due to a head injury inflicted by hitting a stationary object and then hitting a rough structure after that. The police have, since the beginning, been alleging that Gupta died after hitting a lamp post and...
04:35 PM, Apr 04, 2013
The death of a 23-year-old activist of the leftwing Students Federation of India (SFI) during a police crackdown on students' protest in Kolkata on April 2, 2013, has left the city and the country shell-shocked. Sudipto Gupta, an MA student at Rabindra Bharati University, was admitted to hospital with severe internal haemorrhage and later succumbed to his injuries. Gupta was part of a protest organised by the SFI against the...
09:26 PM, Apr 03, 2013
In a shocking instance of police brutality, a student activist belonging to the SFI lost his life after being beaten up by policemen during its crackdown on a protest. Sudipto Gupta, a student of MA at Rabindra Bharati University was admitted to hospital with severe internal haemorrhage and later succumbed to his injuries. ...
07:25 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Three days after campus violence rocked Kolkata's Garden Reach area and left a police sub-inspector dead, the move by the state government to transfer Kolkata Police Commissioner Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda has come under severe criticism by the Governor as well as the Opposition. ...
03:48 PM, Feb 15, 2013
A woman was allegedly raped by an assistant sub-inspector of Kolkata Police in Kolkata on Wednesday. ...
02:06 AM, Jan 10, 2013
Kolkata Police has transferred Assistant Commissioner Debasish Baidya, in-charge of Karaya police station, and the OC Prasenjit Bhattacharya. The two have been penalised on charges of misleading the Lalbazar police headquarters over Aminul Islam's death. ...
10:13 AM, Jan 08, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal Cabinet on Friday passed a proposal to reserve 10 per cent of jobs in Kolkata police for women. The jobs-reservation will initially be applicable only to the city police department, but subsequently it will be extended to the state police personnel, and cover even the areas affected by Maoist activity. "According to a proposal by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a reservation of 10 per cent will...
05:54 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Kolkata: A mob on Friday ransacked a police station and torched a vehicle in Kolkata after being removed from a hospital premises where they were protesting the death of a woman, police said. According to sources, the trouble broke out in the morning when people protesting the death of the woman, daughter of Trinamool Congress Councillor Moinul Haque Chowdhuri, at a nursing home in south Kolkata were removed. The mob...
04:53 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Kolkata: Asian Games gold medalist Pinki Pramanik's blood samples were collected today to determine the gender of the athlete who was arrested in June on charges of alleged rape. The athlete has been accused of being a male, and is currently under judicial custody for alleged rape. "Pinki was brought under police custody to collect the blood sample required for the karyotyping test (to determine the choromosom pattern). The sample...
10:59 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: The West Bengal government has been quick to cash in on Kolkata Knight Riders' maiden IPL triumph organising a grand felicitation ceremony at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday. However, Kolkata Police, in their bid to enhance the image of 'Brand Kolkata', has conceived an innovative 'Road Safety' advertisement campaign. They have connected William Blake's famous poem "The Tyger" with KKR's IPL victory. Kolkata Traffic Police have put out...
04:40 PM, May 29, 2012
Kolkata: Amid severe criticism from all sections of society for calling the Park Street rape "a cooked-up case", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday blamed a section of media for distorting her statement and said her initial response was based on the preliminary investigation report. "A particular channel has distorted my version. I have never said that nothing has happened. As per the preliminary investigation, it was revealed...
05:39 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Mamata had earlier rubbished the victim's complaints as a conspiracy to malign her government. ...
01:54 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has a lot to answer in the Park Street rape case after Kolkata police who had earlier ridiculed her, are now saying that CCTV camera footage shows the victim was indeed telling the truth. The victim of the brutal rape was first mocked by the police, even the Chief Minister rubbished her complains as a conspiracy to malign her government. A state minister questioned the...
08:40 AM, Feb 19, 2012
Kolkata: Two days after hinting that the four accused in the alleged rape of a woman in Kolkata had alibis, the police have now arrested two of those accused. The police now say the victim was assaulted by the four men. The police also said that the victim was getting threatening phone calls since the case came to light. The U-turn by the police though raises questions about the state...
07:34 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Kolkata: The alleged rape of an Anglo-Indian woman took another curious turn on Friday with the police, who had earlier found "discrepancies" in her statement, conceding that an offence must have occurred, though the West Bengal government with a woman as chief minister maintains it is a cooked up case. Kolkata police had on Thursday maintained there were "certain technical discrepancies" in the case and termed it as an attempt...
11:08 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Kolkata: A mother of two who was allegedly raped at gunpoint inside a moving car in Kolkata tracked down her rapists on social networking website Facebook and took snapshots of their photographs to file a complaint against them. However, she claimed that the police officials mocked her when she approached them for the filing of an FIR. The police picked up one man matching the prime suspect's profile and his...
06:44 AM, Feb 16, 2012
