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QKolkata: Scanner on Jiaganj Probe; AQI Breaches 100-Mark

Your daily lowdown of all things Kolkata.

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1. Scanner on ‘Deals’ in Triple-Murder Probe

CID team reached Murshidabad’s Jiaganj on Saturday and started probing the triple-murder case even as the district police continued their own investigation, detaining a friend of slain schoolteacher Bandhuprakash Pal and two others.

The parallel probes indicated the administration’s eagerness to crack the mystery behind the murders of Bandhuprakash 40, wife Beauty, 30, and their six-year-old son Bandhuangan at the earliest amid claims by the saffron camp that the teacher was killed because of his association with the RSS.

“Our senior officers in Calcutta have already announced that the murder was not political. The CID team came from Calcutta to help the district police arrest the culprits at the earliest,” said a senior state police officer.

(Source: The Telegraph)

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2. After Good 6 months, AQI Breaches 100-Mark, Hints at Choking Winter

The city woke up to a hazy Sunday, with pollutants hanging low in the ambient air and refusing to dissipate even as the day progressed.

After a relatively “clean” six months, the city’s air quality index (AQI) again breached the 100 mark, even at stations in the green zones, leading to apprehension of worse days ahead, especially in winter.

The air quality was pretty alarming early on Sunday, when the AQI crossed the 200 mark, the figures being recorded at the Victoria Memorial Hall and Fort William stations, both located in the city’s green zone Maidan, known to be the lungs of Kolkata. As hours passed, the haze did not show any signs of abatement and the AQI was found in the range of 118 to 123 at 11am. Worse, the AQI was driven by the high rate of PM2.5, the tiniest pollutant, which goes straights into the lungs and then to the bloodstream.

(Source: The Times of India)

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3. Political Rivals Rush to Jiaganj

All political roads continue to lead to Jiaganj despite investigations suggesting the 8 October triple murder was not political and the family appealing against the politicisation of a “personal tragedy”.

The saffron camp’s propaganda machinery went on an overdrive, trying to attribute political — even communal — motives to the grisly murders of teacher Bandhuprakash Pal, 40, his pregnant wife Beauty, 30, and their six-year-old son Bandhuangan in the Murshidabad town.

CPM leaders visited the Pals’ residence on Saturday and those of the Congress on Sunday. Unlike the saffron camp, the CPM or the Congress did not try to ascribe

motives but echoed each other in accusing the Mamata Banerjee government of having failed to maintain law and order.

(Source: The Telegraph)

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4. 15-Year-Old Kills Father for Assaulting Mom

In an incident that might remind one of a recent Bengali movie, a 15-year-old youth walked into Rajarhat police station at 3.20am on Sunday saying he had murdered his father, a 42-year-old stone chips supplier, for repeatedly assaulting his mother.

The youth who had bludgeoned his father to death with a stone block said he did so after his father refused to heed to his warnings to stop harassing his mother. The youth has been produced before a juvenile court with a plea to allow a magistrate to record his confession.

(Source: The Times of India)

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5. Help at Hand for Pet Lovers at New Town Creche-Clinic

The pet clinic-cumcreche and cemetery set up in New Town last year seems to have gained popularity among pet lovers.

“I know many animal lovers who have not adopted a pet, worried about where to leave them when they go on a vacation. It was necessary to have such an arrangement here. It is a good initiative by the NKDA,” said Tapas Sengupta, president of Bidhannagar Kennel Club.

A total of 142 dogs have been treated at the facility set up by the NKDA, 24 kept at the crèche and 16 have been buried at the cemetery over the past six months. Among the 16 burials, five took place in September alone. “Many have thanked the authorities for coming up with a pet cemetery, given there’s a severe shortage of such facilities in the city and surroundings. A few months ago, a retired bureaucrat drove in all the way from south Kolkata late at night to bury his pet here. He was pleased with the services provided to him even at that hour,” said an NKDA official. With each burial costing Rs 2,500, the authorities have collected Rs 40,000 so far.

(Source: The Times of India)

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