Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Topic: West bengal

Calcutta HC orders CBI probe into TMC leader’s murder, says “murder and Birbhum violence interlinked”

The Calcutta High Court Friday handed over the investigation into the murder of the deputy gram pradhan and Trinamool Congress politician Bhadu Sheikh, which allegedly sparked retaliatory violence and eight other killings in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

“Fight for underprivileged,” says Saira Shah Halim contesting Bengal by-polls on CPIM ticket

Educator and poet Saira Shah Halim is the CPM candidate from the Ballygunge Assembly constituency in West Bengal.

West Bengal violence: Five BJP MLAs suspended in Bengal Assembly

Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and the BJP’s Chief Whip Manoj Tigga and three legislators of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal were suspended by the Speaker Monday until the next session of the Assembly after members of the ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP scuffled inside the House over the violence in Birbhum’s Bogtui village.

West Bengal violence: Calcutta HC hands over probe to CBI

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the killings in Birbhum’s Bogtui village, where eight people were burnt alive earlier this week.

West Bengal’s Birbhum violence: Calcutta HC takes suo moto cognizance

Two days after at least eight people were burnt to death in the wave of violence that erupted in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, the Calcutta High Court took suo moto cognizance of the incident.

Eight burnt to death after killing of TMC leader in West Bengal’s Birbhum

At least eight charred bodies were found at Rampurhat in West Bengal’s Birbhum district Tuesday following several incidents of fire and bombing, after the killing of Trinamool Congress leader Bahadur Shaikh.