Kolkata: Union Minister Jairam Ramesh and top leaders of the West Bengal Congress will take out a rally in Maoist-infested Lalgarh on Saturday. The rally comes ahead of the Panchayat elections in the region.
The Union ministers are expected to highlight Centre's role in providing better civic amenities to the people of the area.
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee will also be Jangmahal on Saturday, but is unlikely to address the public.
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08:21 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Kolkata: A Kolkata court on Friday declared nine suspected Naxals as political prisoners. The nine men had been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with an illegal arms manufacturing case and were said to have been involved in the Lalgarh uprising. The West Bengal High Court had in August granted the nine the political prisoner status. As per the West Bengal Correctional Services Act, political prisoners are...
11:30 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Kolkata: Lalgarh has been mostly in the news for all the violence in the area, but the place now has 25 young boys with dreams of being soccer stars. Team Junglemahal is a squad of 25 youngsters from maoist-hit areas of Purulia, Bankura and West Midnapore converging in Lalgarh, that was once known as a Maoist killing field. But today 18-year-old Debashish and his friends want to put the past...
09:32 AM, Jun 27, 2011
Rourkela: Lalgarh Maoist leader Bikram Mahato and a host of trained cadres, including women, from Chhattisgarh are attending camps set up by banned CPI(Maoist) deep inside Saranda forest where training is being imparted in guerrilla warfare, arms and handling of explosives, police said on Saturday. Leader of the Maoist outfit's women's wing, Chameli alias Rekha is providing arms training to the women cadre to build its "Nari Sena" deep inside...
02:55 PM, Apr 30, 2011
Kolkata: A court in West Bengal's West Midnapore district on Sunday sent two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders to 14 days judicial custody for their alleged role in the January 7 Netai shootings which left nine people dead and several injured, police said. "Abani Singh and Ashwini Chlak were presented before the Jhargram court and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days," Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) Superintendent of...
06:55 PM, Feb 27, 2011
Kolkata: The CBI on Tuesday registered a case in the Netai firing incident in which nine persons were killed last month, after the Calcutta High Court directed the state government to handover the case to the agency. The CBI will take over the investigation from the CID and local police and would submit its progress report to the high court every fortnight as per the directions of a division bench...
12:21 AM, Feb 23, 2011
New Delhi: Calcutta High Court on Friday instructed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to submit the investigation report in the Lalgarh's Netai village massacre case within fifteen days. The Netai village massacre which took place on January 7, 2011 had claimed at least nine lives and had left many others injured. The massacre was allegedly carried out by CPI(M) cadres in Lalgarh. Crime Investigation Department (CID) was investigating the...
04:12 PM, Feb 18, 2011
Two weeks after gun-firing allegedly by armed CPI-M cadres, Netai villagers fear for their life. ...
09:19 AM, Jan 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Calcutta High court on Wednesday ruled out an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Lalgarh massacre incident. The court directed the West Bengal CID to continue the investigation but said that the probe would be monitored by the court directly. The Calcutta High court asked the investigating agency to come up with update on the investigation by February 4. The high court also directed...
10:59 AM, Jan 19, 2011
Kolkata: One more person, injured in the January 7 Lalgarh massacre, on Friday succumbed to the injuries at SSKM hospital in Kolkata. The total death toll in the massacre has now gone up to eight. As a result, pressure seems to be piling up on the West Bengal government ahead of the Assembly polls. Governor MK Narayanan will visit Netai village, the ground zero of the January 7 massacre, next...
12:51 PM, Jan 14, 2011
Kolkata: An alleged CPI-M supporter was arrested on Thursday in connection with the killing of seven unarmed persons on January 7 at Netai village in West Midnapore district. A senior district police officer today said that Ajit Hembram was arrested from Belatikri village in the Lalgarh area this morning. Two persons had earlier been arrested in this connection. The officer said that after interrogating him, a hand cannon was seized...
05:24 PM, Jan 13, 2011
New Delhi; The West Bengal government on Thursday ruled out a CBI investigation into the Lalgarh Massacre case. The government filed an affidavit, in which it stated its position on a plea for a CBI probe into the killing of seven persons on January 7 in Lalgarh. West Bengal government also ruled out the use of Central Forces in dismantling armed camps in Lalgarh if any. The West Bengal Government...
04:59 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Kolkata: Five days after seven persons were shot dead at Netai village in Lalgarh by suspected CPI(M) armed cadre, the Maoists on Wednesday retaliated by burning the houses of CPI(M) workers and supporters. A Maoist squad entered Chandpal village under Sankrail police station and set on fire six houses, a senior district police officer said. "So far there is no report of casualty and the joint forces have rushed to...
04:21 PM, Jan 12, 2011
Kolkata: Ashok Basu, the officer in-charge of the Lalgarh police station in West Bengal, was on Tuesday given a show cause notice for negligence in the wake of the Jan 7 killing of seven villagers near the Maoist stronghold. "He has been asked to explain in writing the allegations levelled against the police that it went to the spot hours after the incident though the police station was 3.5 km...
11:40 PM, Jan 11, 2011
New Delhi: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked the West Bengal government to explain its stand on recommending a CBI investigation into the Lalgarh massacre. The court also asked the governemnt to clarify its stand on state operations to dismantle arms camps in the region, if any. The HC was responding to a PIL filed by the Calcutta HC bar association seeking a CBI probe into killing of villagers...
05:15 PM, Jan 11, 2011
Burdwan: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed the bullets used by suspected CPI-M cadre in the January 7 Lalgarh firing incident, which left seven villagers dead, were same as those used by police. "The police are supplying bullets to CPI-M cadre. The bullets used by the cadre to kill innocent people in Netai village are same as the bullets used by police," Banerjee told a public meeting at...
06:27 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Lalgarh: The Netai Gram massacre which claimed seven lives and left many others injured indicates that very little has changed in Lalgarh. 23-year old Sampa Ghorai is inconsolable. Her tears have dried up, yet her grief doesn't allow her to stop wailing for her 25-year old husband Sourav Ghorai. Sourav was killed by bullets fired in Lalgarh's Netai village. The house was used as a camp for armed CPI-M cadres...
10:08 AM, Jan 10, 2011
Lalgarh: Police raids were on in Netai village near the Maoist hub in West Bengal on Saturday a day after seven people were shot dead and 12 wounded allegedly by Marxist-backed assailants. Groups of villagers were seen huddled together, mourning the deaths, while anxiety was writ large on the faces of those whose family members lay critically injured in hospitals. Around noon, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee went round the...
03:38 PM, Jan 08, 2011
Kolkata: The battle between the ruling Left Front and the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal has intensified and turned bloody. At least seven Trinamool supporters, including a woman, have been killed and 15 others injured at a rally at Lalgarh in West Bengal's West Midnapore district on Friday. Trinamool leaders allege that Communist Party of India-Marxist cadres opened fire at their supporters. Trinamool leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay claimed that CPI(M) had...
03:27 PM, Jan 07, 2011
Lalgarh: It is celebration time for all Bengalis as Durga Puja begins on Thursday. In this time of joy and festivity as Bengal goes into a state of jubilation, celebrations in Lalgarh have a deeper significance. The Maoist hub of Bengal, suffering from violence, is home to many artisans who make the idols of the goddess. In Lalgarh, even as the artisans add finishing touches to an otherwise insignificant community...
12:04 PM, Oct 14, 2010
