Kolkata: A raid on the Kalka-Howrah Netaji Express Special at Asansol station led to recovery of 110 parakeets and 55 small species of munia in the ea.
T he CBI on Saturday questioned Anup Maji alias Lala for the third day in connection to the probe into the illegal coal mining case. An IPS officer was also questioned. The central investigating agency is looking at any probable involvement of officers across departments. The agency had earlier claimed that Lala greased the palms of several officials to run the operations. The agency has questioned a few police officers to figure out the steps taken by them to curb illegal coal mining. A former superintendent of Purulia was also questioned on Saturday. TNN
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KOLKATA: CID, which had started a parallel investigation into the multi-crore coal scam, made its first arrest on Friday night. The state probe agency arrested businessman Randhir Singh from Andal in West Burdwan after questioning several ECL employees from Durgapur and Asansol-Raniganj coal belt through the week.
Confirming the arrest, DIC (operations) Ajoy Thakur said the complaint was filed by ECL authorities in 2020. He, however, refused to share more details saying the matter was under investigation. Sources said more arrests were likely.
Singh s arrest is being seen as important since he is considered a close aide of multi-crore coal scam prime accused Arup Majhi alias Lala, who has not responded to several CBI efforts to question him. A lookout notice has been issued against him. The enforcement directorate is also investigating the case.
Siliguri/Chopra: CPM’s Sankar Ghosh, who left the party two days ago, has joined BJP. Congress’ Ashok Roy, from Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur, too took the BJP flag from Bengal BJP minder Kailash Vijayvargiya on Friday.
While Ghosh, once a confidante of Ashok Bhattacharya, was upset over selection of candidates, Roy was aggrieved with Congress’ decision to give the Chopra seat to the CPM.
The CPM-turned-BJP leader trained his guns on party veterans who had refused to bring about a change within. “One candidate is winning from Siliguri (Ashok Bhattacharya) while the other candidate (Dilip Singh) is losing from Dabgram-Fulbari. There has been no change in candidate list. How can there be development without change? No one is allowed to raise his voice,” Ghosh said while dumping CPM.