Last Updated: March 30, 2024, 00:14 IST Rekha Patra, a housewife, is reportedly a victim of torture and harassment by now-suspended TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh and his associates. (Image/ANI) She also shot off a letter to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, alleging that Bhattacharyya, the TMC nominee from Tamluk Lok Sabha seat and head … Read more
Basirhat (WB), A court in West Bengal’s Basirhat on Sunday extended the CBI custody of Shajahan Sheikh, key accused in a mob attack on ED officials at Sandeshkhali, by another four days on a prayer by the central agency. The Central Bureau of Investigation got custody of Sheikh on March 6 along with transfer of … Read more
Kolkata: A day after Prime Minister Narendra said a “storm of Sandeshkhali will sweep Bengal” and decimate the ruling party, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met a group of women from Sandeshkhali and accused the BJP of spreading lies about her party. Asserting that Bengal was the safest place for women, Banerjee hit … Read more
CBI registered three FIRs on Tuesday hours after the Calcutta High Court ordered a probe by the federal agency into the attack on Enforcement Directorate officials at Sandeshkhali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. While one of the FIRs mentions suspended – and arrested – Trinamul Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh as the prime accused, … Read more
Coming down heavily on Trinamool Congress for its “grave sin” in Sandeshkhali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the “aakrosh (storm) of narishakti” in Sandeshkhali will not be restricted to Sandeshkhali alone but will sweep across West Bengal. Addressing a public rally in Barasat, he slammed Trinamool’s political culture and reluctance to act … Read more
Reported By: Kamalika Sengupta Last Updated: March 06, 2024, 19:12 IST Kolkata [Calcutta], India Former Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh. (PTI photo) West Bengal police hand over TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh to CBI amid political tussle. High Court orders transfer of custody in ED officers attack case West Bengal police handed over TMC leader Shahjahan … Read more
The West Bengal government on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court challenging an order of the Calcutta High Court to transfer the probe into an attack on Enforcement Directorate officials at Sandeshkhali on January 5 to the CBI. The matter was mentioned before a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta by senior advocate Abhishek … Read more
Kolkata: Major fissures have developed in the Trinamool Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, with Baranagar MLA Tapas Roy resigning from all the government posts he held as MLA and giving up his security on Monday. He came down heavily on the Trinamool over corruption and the Sandeshkhali issue. Roy’s resignation comes two days … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to West Bengal ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections where he will lay the foundation stone for and inaugurate several development projects in Arambagh and Krishna Nagar. Taking his ‘Vikas’ push to another level in the eastern state, where the BJP is locked in … Read more
Seeking 14-day custodial interrogation of Shahjahan, the West Bengal Police told the court that “if he (Shahjahan) is given a chance, he will assist” the police in the investigation. Shahjahan is a key accused in the Sandeshkhali incident and not a witness. The remand paper filed by the West Bengal Police, accessed by ET, reads … Read more
