1. Arsalan Owner’s Son Held for Accident: Car Caught Speeding 43 Times in 9 Months
The Jaguar car allegedly being driven by Arsalan Parvez, 22, son of the owner of Arsalan, a Kolkata-based restaurant chain, was speeding at 100-120 km per hour before it was involved in the accident that left two people dead on Friday night, initial investigation has revealed.
Kolkata Traffic Police’s database shows that the same vehicle was caught by speed guns on 43 occasions over the last nine months, according to police sources. It is also learnt that between November 2018 and July 12 this year, the car has accrued as many as 48 “citation cases”.
(Source: The Indian Express)
2. Mamata Unveils Digha Jagannath Temple Plan
Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday unveiled a plan to set up a Jagannath temple, like the one in Puri, on a two-acre plot on Old Digha beach.
“Just like in Puri, tourists will soon have an attraction like Jagannath over here. Our Jagannath idol will be as large as Puri’s,” said the chief minister.
Mamata made the announcement while inaugurating Dighasree — a business convention centre — at New Digha. The Rs 70 crore project is spread on a five-acre plot.
(Source: The Telegraph)
3. Mamata Renews Stand on Tajpur Port
Bengal chief minister on Tuesday iterated that her government would develop the proposed deep-sea port in East Midnapore’s Tajpur on its own even though Nabanna is yet to formally communicate its decision to the Centre which is supposed to execute the project jointly with the state.
“We had given 74 per cent stake to the Centre to develop Tajpur port during the tenure of former shipping minister Nitin Gadkari in 2017. But the project has come to a halt. We want to do it on our own,” Mamata Banerjee said during a programme to inaugurate a business convention centre at Digha, around 18km from the proposed Rs 13,000 crore project.
(Source: The Telegraph)
4. Calcutta HC Grants Mukul Roy Bail Over Clash
The high court on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to BJP leader Mukul Roy in connection with a clash between police and BJP supporters at Coke Oven in Durgapur on November 1 last year. A division bench of Justice Sahidullah Munshi and Justice Subhasish Dasgupta granted Roy anticipatory bail on a condition that he would have to surrender before any lower court in Durgapur and obtain bail within three weeks.
The Coke Oven police had lodged a suo motu case against 39 BJP activists and leaders, including the party’s state chief Dilip Ghosh and Roy. Later, a lower court in Durgapur issued arrest orders against the accused. Ghosh and many other accused had already obtained anticipatory bail.
(Source: The Telegraph)
5. Protest After ‘Rats Gouge Eyes’ of Corpse in Morgue
The family members of a 69-year-old man, who died after allegedly falling on road on Sunday, protested at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital here and refused to take the body after post-mortem on Monday evening, claiming that his eyes were missing from the body.
The hospital authorities formed a committee to look into the matter, even as the family claimed that the employees blamed rats present at the morgue for it. The body of Sambhunath Das was sent to R G Kar hospital for post-mortem by police, as it was an unnatural death.
(Source: The Indian Express)
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