Kolkata crime news: The accused Alok Kumar, who remains under the custody of the police, was advised by a tantrik to sacrifice a child in order to become a father. Police sources say the man was depressed after his wife encountered miscarriages thrice. When she conceived again, the man took the help of the tantrik and blindly followed his instructions.
Investigation into the alleged murder of two 17-year-old boys, whose bodies were found in a morgue nearly a fortnight after they went missing from the city's Baguihati area, was on Wednesday handed over to the West Bengal CID.
An elderly Gujarati couple was found dead in a south Kolkata neighbourhood, in an incident of alleged double murder that might have links to the share market, police said.