A 15-year-old boy was slapped to death in Murshidabad on Saturday night because he sold a bunch of tuberose at a Rs-2 discount in the absence of the florist he worked for, an English Daily reported. Somnath Haldar, who fainted while being hit repeatedly, did not regain senses.
The inspector general of police Suman Bala Sahu on Sunday met the eight-year-old domestic help who was allegedly beaten up by deputy inspector general Basudeb Bag at his Andul residence on Saturday. Sahu spoke to the girl and her father for 45 minutes at a Liluah home. Police recorded a general diary after residents of Andul put up a roadblock near Nazirgunge investigation centre on Saturday night.
A homemaker quarantined at the Infectious Diseases Hospital for suspected swine flu walked out on Sunday and returned home to Kalyani in Nadia. Sutapa Bhattacharya, 46, who had been to Singapore with her family on vacation, was despatched to the Beleghata hospital after she landed at the airport on Saturday night. She wanted to leave after signing a risk bond but was not allowed to do so by the nurses in the isolation ward. She was allegedly denied medical attention for hours.
A 26-year-old homemaker was murdered allegedly by her husband in their flat located at Sinthee in Kolkata on Sunday after a fight over her going out to work. Arvind Santalia, 40, who works in a different outlet of the same sari company where his wife Pinki was employed, is absconding. Arvind slashed the veins in Pinki’s left leg and left wrist and hit her on the forehead with an iron utensil.
Residents of Salt Lake have decided to move court against the school being built in the area by Sourav Ganguly. The CA 222 plot, spread across 63 acres between Salt Lake School and Haryana Vidyamandir, was recently leased out to the former India captain by the urban development department. Residents fear construction of a third school in the area will lead to pollution and congestion.
Forty thousand jewellers in the state are going on strike from Monday to Wednesday, stopping the making, booking and buying of jewellery — bang in the middle of wedding season, media reported today. Members of the Swarna Shilpa Bachao Committee and Bangiyo Swarna Shilpi Samity have announced the 72-hour bandh to protest “the high-handedness” of the income tax department.
The word “Doctor” has come under the legal scanner. The division bench of Calcutta High Court has asked the state medical council to submit an affidavit on relevant rules empowering individuals to put “Dr” before their names. The bench headed by Chief Justice S.S. Nijjar issued the directive following public interest litigation by Kolkata resident Sanjib Das.
A peon of a private firm in Ballygunge was arrested on Sunday for stealing Rs 1.07 lakh from the office two days ago. Raju Bera used to stay in the office. He allegedly broke open the cash box and decamped with the money. He was picked up from his home in East Midnapore. Police recovered money found buried under the floor of his room.
An unidentified man in his late 40s was found dead in a makeshift CPM party office, set up before the general elections, near the Kona Expressway and NH 6 crossing on Sunday. The body bore no signs of injury. It has been sent for post-mortem.
The body of a woman in her mid-20s, whose wrists and throat were slit, was found in a trunk on the bank of Circular Canal in Narkeldanga , Kolkata, on Sunday. The woman, yet to be identified, was dressed in red and black kurta.
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