1. CBI To Quiz Sovan In Narada Probe
The CBI has asked Sovan Chatterjee, former Calcutta mayor and Trinamool leader who recently joined the BJP, to appear for questioning in connection with the Narada sting case.
The summons came on a day the central agency questioned Mukul Roy, former Trinamool leader now in the BJP, in the same case in New Delhi.
Chatterjee, who joined the BJP on 14 August, has been asked to depose on 31 August. The CBI has also asked Aparupa Poddar, a Trinamool MP, to appear in the same case on 2 September.
(Source: The Telegraph)
2. Beat Up Police And Trinamool: BJP’s Dilip Ghosh
Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has exhorted party workers to unleash counterattacks on police and Trinamool Congress members, assuring his men that the consequences would be “managed”.
Addressing a party programme at East Midnapore’s Mecheda on Monday night, Ghosh told BJP workers not to be afraid of the police and Trinamool.
“Attacks on BJP workers across the state have become common. Instead of arresting those responsible, the police are framing our boys in false cases. If you are under attack, beat up police personnel, beat up TMC workers. Do not be scared. If there is any problem, we will manage it,” said Ghosh, the Midnapore MP.
(Source: The Telegraph)
3. Saradha Probe By CBI Slow: Rajeev Counsel
The CBI was yet to summon any of the 21 “influential people” named by Saradha case prime accused Sudipta Sen during interrogation, alleged Milon Mukherjee, counsel for former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar during his argument before Justice Madhumati Mitra of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday. The court was hearing Kumar’s petition, seeking quashing of CBI’s 22 May notice, directing him to appear before the investigation agency.
Mukherjee said his client was only a witness but the CBI was treating him as an accused.
(Source: The Times Of India)
4. Students And Parents On Protest Hold Up College Street Traffic For 3 Hrs
Students of the morning section of Hare School and their parents mounted a protest on College Street against the lackadaisical way of teaching-learning at the 200-year-old government-run school, holding up peak-hour traffic between 8am and 11.30am on Wednesday. The dharna managed to force the school education department to sanction five new teaching posts and get five teachers to join immediately, apparently prodded by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The school confirmed that the new teachers will start work from Thursday.
(Source: The Times Of India)
5.19 Burdwan Blast Case Suspects Plead Guilty
Nineteen of 31 Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) Bangladesh operatives accused in the 2014 Khagragarh blast case pleaded guilty before a city court on Wednesday.
Judge Siddhartha Kanjilal convicted them and decided to pronounce the quantum of punishment on 30 August. The trial of the remaining 12 accused, including JMB leader Burhan Sheikh, will continue.
“On 21 August, the previous date of hearing, the 19 accused had expressed their desire to plead guilty. The judge had said that even after their plea, their punishment will be pronounced after the completion of the trial. But when they pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the judge decided to pronounce their punishment on 30 August,” a court officer said. Of the 19 who pleaded guilty, two are women.
(Source: The Telegraph)
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