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  • Armed man storms into Bengal school to take school college students hostage, Mamata calls it a conspiracy

    By Express News Service

    KOLKATA: In a spine-chilling incident, an individual in his 40s stormed proper right into a highschool in Malda on Wednesday morning brandishing a pistol and entered a classroom with the intention of taking school college students hostage, which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee described as a conspiracy hatched in Delhi.

    The man, acknowledged as Dev Ballav, moreover positioned a petroleum bomb and a container stuffed with acid on the desk of the classroom. On being alerted, police personnel surrounded the varsity and a deputy superintendent of police pounced on Ballav and pinned him down. A search revealed one different pistol tucked inside the man’s waist.

    Preliminary investigation revealed the individual’s partner is a BJP member of a Trinamool Congress dominated panchayat. Police are probing whether or not or not the individual’s partner had any dispute with the ruling celebration or the couple had any conjugal drawback which might have led to the incident.

    The incident occurred spherical 11.30 am when classes have been taking place as regular in Muchia Chandramohan High School in Old Malda area. “Ballav, with a bag on his shoulder, entered the school unnoticed. He went straight to a classroom on the ground-floor and brandished a firearm. He threatened the teacher to stop teaching. Ballav then placed the petrol-bomb and the acid container on the table,” talked about a police officer.

    Ballav took out a bit of paper and started learning out how his complaints to elevated authorities inside the administration fell on deaf ears.

    On listening to the incident, police swung into movement shortly. Personnel from the native police station rushed to the spot.

    “I carefully went close to the door of the classroom. I saw the frightened pale faces of the students. I got married recently and I do not have a child. I could not resist myself and pounced on the man and forced him to lie on the floor. Soon, other policemen came to help me,” talked about DSP Mohammad Azharuddin.

    Ballav was arrested and booked beneath the Arms Act.

    Reacting to the incident, the West Bengal CM talked about, “Conspiracies are being hatched from Delhi. I don’t know who are behind it. I urge people to be very careful about it.”

    The police talked about Ballav, in the middle of the course of interrogation, talked about his partner had left him collectively along with her son and he complained to fully completely different layers of the state administration. “We are yet to ascertain whether Ballav’s grievance is the reason behind his act,” talked about a police officer.

    KOLKATA: In a spine-chilling incident, an individual in his 40s stormed proper right into a highschool in Malda on Wednesday morning brandishing a pistol and entered a classroom with the intention of taking school college students hostage, which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee described as a conspiracy hatched in Delhi.

    The man, acknowledged as Dev Ballav, moreover positioned a petroleum bomb and a container stuffed with acid on the desk of the classroom. On being alerted, police personnel surrounded the varsity and a deputy superintendent of police pounced on Ballav and pinned him down. A search revealed one different pistol tucked inside the man’s waist.

    Preliminary investigation revealed the individual’s partner is a BJP member of a Trinamool Congress dominated panchayat. Police are probing whether or not or not the individual’s partner had any dispute with the ruling celebration or the couple had any conjugal drawback which might have led to the incident.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The incident occurred spherical 11.30 am when classes have been taking place as regular in Muchia Chandramohan High School in Old Malda area. “Ballav, with a bag on his shoulder, entered the school unnoticed. He went straight to a classroom on the ground-floor and brandished a firearm. He threatened the teacher to stop teaching. Ballav then placed the petrol-bomb and the acid container on the table,” talked about a police officer.

    Ballav took out a bit of paper and started learning out how his complaints to elevated authorities inside the administration fell on deaf ears.

    On listening to the incident, police swung into movement shortly. Personnel from the native police station rushed to the spot.

    “I carefully went close to the door of the classroom. I saw the frightened pale faces of the students. I got married recently and I do not have a child. I could not resist myself and pounced on the man and forced him to lie on the floor. Soon, other policemen came to help me,” talked about DSP Mohammad Azharuddin.

    Ballav was arrested and booked beneath the Arms Act.

    Reacting to the incident, the West Bengal CM talked about, “Conspiracies are being hatched from Delhi. I don’t know who are behind it. I urge people to be very careful about it.”

    The police talked about Ballav, in the middle of the course of interrogation, talked about his partner had left him collectively along with her son and he complained to fully completely different layers of the state administration. “We are yet to ascertain whether Ballav’s grievance is the reason behind his act,” talked about a police officer.

  • BSF helps villagers throughout border give last farewell to kin

    Express News Service

    KOLKATA:  Going past the decision of responsibility, BSF personnel posted in Malda district made preparations for Bangladeshi nationals to pay their respect to a relative on the Indian facet, who died of illnesses two days in the past.

    The physique of Abdul Khaleque (55) was introduced close to the zero line for a handful of kinfolk from Bangladesh to bid a last good bye. “After Khaleque’s loss of life, his relations residing in Keshtopur village beneath English Bazar police station space requested our forty fourth battalion of the BSF posted within the space.

    They instructed us that a few of their kinfolk dwell on the opposite facet of the border in Bangladesh and need to see the mortal stays of earlier than the final rites are carried out. The commandant accepted the request,” mentioned a senior police officer.

    The household approached the commandant by the native panchayat Pradhan. “The commandant contacted the head of the battalion and he was given a nod. Khaleque’s family members were told to inform their relatives in Bangladesh and asked to bring them near the zero line of the border,” mentioned the BSF officer.

    After getting nod from the commandant head, a message was delivered to Border Guard Bangladesh. Khaleque’s physique was saved close to Zero Line for quarter-hour from 10 pm.  Mehtab Mondal, a villager of Keshtopur, mentioned the want of Khaleque’s kinfolk could possibly be fulfilled solely due to the BSF’s effort. “I was also present there. Escorted by the personnel of Bangladesh Border Guard, the relatives from Bangladesh came and perform their last rites. We witnessed the BSF’s good gesture to fulfil the wish of Khaleque’s relatives living in India and Bangladesh,” he mentioned.

    A senior BSF official mentioned the drive organised numerous drives to develop cordial relations with the native residents. “On many occasions, we transported patients to hospitals and extended helps to students This is part of our job so that we can take local people into confidence and receive information from them about crimes taking place in the border area,” mentioned one other BSF official.

  • 15 injured as truck rams into e-rickshaw in West Bengal’s Malda

    By PTI

    MALDA: Fifteen individuals, together with six youngsters, squeezed into an e-rickshaw had been injured after a truck rammed into the automobile from behind in West Bengal’s Malda district on Friday, police mentioned.

    The situation of 4 youngsters and the e-rickshaw driver is acknowledged to be crucial, a police officer mentioned.

    The accident passed off on National Highway 34 close to Narayanpur Mission Road in Malda police station space when 14 individuals from Bihar’s Kishanganj had been going to a dargah in Pandua.

    They had employed the e-rickshaw at Malda Town railway station for a spherical journey at Rs 500, he mentioned.

    All the 14 passengers and the e-rickshaw driver have been injured.

    They had been initially admitted to a non-public hospital, and later shifted to Malda Medical College and Hospital, the officer mentioned.

  • Malda youth held for killing, burying 4 members of the family: Police

    A 19-year-old man allegedly killed 4 members of his household, together with his mother and father, and buried them inside an under-construction godown close to his home at Kaliachak in Malda.
    The accused, Mohammad Asif (21), was arrested on Saturday. Police exhumed the decomposed corpses in presence of the accused and a Justice of the Peace.
    “The bodies were buried two metres below the surface inside a godown. They have been sent for autopsy. The accused has been arrested and his elder brother is also suspected to have had a role in the killings,” Malda SP Alok Rajoria mentioned.
    The incident got here to gentle after the accused’s 21-year-old brother Arif Mohammad, who had managed to flee throughout the incident and adjusted areas throughout these 4 months, knowledgeable regulation enforcers at Kaliachak police station on Friday evening.
    “On February 28, Asif had served all of the members of the family chilly drinks spiked with sleeping tablets. As they fell unconscious, he tied their fingers and gagged their mouths with duct tapes. He then drowned the 4 individuals in a reservoir in the home and buried the our bodies within the ground of a room.
    “The elder brother somehow managed to loosen his duct tape and escaped from the house after a brief physical struggle with the accused. He had gone to various places, including Kolkata, during these four months,” the SP informed reporters.
    Police mentioned the accused, on being interrogated, confessed to killing his mother and father, sister and grandmother and burying them in a warehouse close to his home.
    His elder brother fled to Kolkata after Asif allegedly threatened to kill him as effectively.

    Locals claimed they suspected one thing was mistaken as not one member of his household was seen stepping out of residence within the final 4 months.
    The accused’s mom Ira Bibi (45), father Jawad Ali (50), sister Arifa Khatun (17) and grandmother Alekjan Bibi (75) had been feared lacking since February, the locals added.

    The police haven’t but been in a position to set up the motive behind the killings.
    The accused’s elder brother has been detained and is being questioned, police mentioned.
    With inputs from PTI

  • Congress chief urges PM to deal with Bengal river financial institution erosion as nationwide catastrophe, launch funds

    Leader of the Congress within the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deal with large-scale river financial institution erosion in Malda and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal as a nationwide catastrophe and launch satisfactory funds for mitigation.
    In a letter to the Prime Minister, the senior Congress chief, who can also be the social gathering’s state unit chief, mentioned that giant chunks of fertile lands have been misplaced to the Ganga, which flows via the 2 minority-dominated districts, rendering lakhs of individuals homeless and making them “neo-refugees”.

    “They become landless and lose their livelihood. Sometimes, poverty leads to an increase in crimes. It creates neo-refugees with many social problems,” the letter learn.
    Citing an instance of the issues confronted by the erosion-affected folks, Chowdhury mentioned a colony of such folks from Malda has come up in Mumbai’s Byculla space, the place they’re branded as Bangladeshi infiltrators as they’ve additionally misplaced their paperwork to the erosion.

    “During the UPA regime, a large fund was sanctioned for the above issue. I request you to kindly release adequate funds to check the land erosion and protect the life and livelihood of the affected people,” he mentioned.
    Chowdhury represents Berhampore Lok Sabha constituency in Murshidabad district. Ganga flows via Malda earlier than getting into Murshidabad, the place it splits into Bhagirathi that flows south via West Bengal and Padma which flows east into Bangladesh.

  • Bringing BJP to energy means encouraging riots: Mamata Banerjee in Malda rally

    Image Source : PTI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a public rally at Kalna, in Burdwan district.
    As political tussle between BJP and Bengal ruling authorities led by Trinamool Congress (TMC) continues to develop, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a recent salvo on Wednesday mentioned that bringing BJP to energy would imply encouraging riots.

    Speaking throughout a public rally in Malda, Mamata Banerjee mentioned, “bringing BJP to power means encouraging riots. If you want riots then cast your vote for BJP… You can’t defeat Mamata as she isn’t alone, she has the support of the people… Till the time I’m alive, I won’t allow BJP here.”

    However, after Mamata’s feedback on Wednesday, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who has been a vocal critique of the Mamata authorities and raised his issues on administration’s functioning repeatedly mentioned, “there is so much fear here that you cannot even speak about it. I have been vocal about this since I came here. Is it even hidden anymore? Fear and democracy cannot co-exist.”

    Earlier on Tuesday, BJP nationwide president JP Nadda attacked West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjeea’s nephew and Trinamool Congress’ Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee for utilizing objectionable phrases in direction of newly-inducted BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari and his father at a rally in East Midnapore’s Contai final week.

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    While addressing a gathering in Birbhum district’s Tarapith, Nadda mentioned, “What Abhishek Banerjee has said towards Suvendu Adhikari and his father Sisir Adhikari I can’t even utter those words. Power has easily come to him and that is why he doesn’t know how to respect it. He is a spoilt brat. This is not the culture of Bengal. Trinamool Congress has spoilt the culture of the state. We will bring back the lost culture heritage for which Bengal was always known for. This land belongs to luminaries like Rabindranath Tagore, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Rishi Arobindo.”

    The BJP president mentioned that Mamata Banerjee talks about Maa-Mati-Manush (Mother-Land-People) however by no means respects that. He mentioned that Bengal has a particular place in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coronary heart.

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