Lalgarh

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  Special CBI Court Convicts Five In 2003 Coal Scam Case

  A CBI special court in New Delhi on Tuesday convicted five persons in connection with a coal scam case related to Lalgarh (North) coal block allocated during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 2003, officials said.

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  Day After Bengal Polls Begin, Probe Agency NIA Arrests Trinamool Leader

  In a pre-dawn swoop today, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Trinamool Congress State Committee member Chhatradhar Mahato from his home in Jhargram district's Lalgarh and whisked him off to Kolkata to be produced before a court around noon. He was asleep when a 40-member team dragged him away, local sources said. In a scuffle during ...

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  "Like A Royal Bengal Tiger...": Mamata Banerjee Responds To JP Nadda

  BJP chief JP Nadda and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee traded barbs - he claimed the ruling Trinamool was blocking the state's development and she accused the opposition of lying - on Tuesday while campaigning for the forthcoming election

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  Bengal Tiger Carcass Found With Spear Through Its Face

  Lalgarh in West Bengal, once active with Maoists, has now become the killing field of an adult Royal Bengal tiger. The endangered beast was discovered in a forest in the area with a spear through its face.

• Mamata criticises Maoists and cautions intellectuals

  On her first visit as chief minister, to Lalgarh the former Naxal hotbed, Mamata Banerjee today criticised the Maoists' cult of violence and killing but did not offer talks with them. Addressing a rally, she also also hit out at the section of intellectuals in Kolkata for indulging Maoists.

• Netai killings: Kolkata High Court orders CBI probe

  The Kolkata High Court has ordered a CBI probe into the Netai killings at Lalgarh earlier this year.The High Court order came after a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed by the Calcutta Bar Association in January demanding a CBI probe into the incident The court, during the hearing, rapped the Central Investigation Department (CID) for ...

• Lalgarh firing death toll rises to nine

  With the death of an injured woman undergoing treatment, the death toll in the January 7 firing at a Lalgarh village in West Midnapore district rose to nine.     Hospital sources said Arati Mondal, who was admitted to SSKM hospital died of her bullet wounds on Sunday morning.     She was rushed to the hospita...

• Lalgarh killings: Governor to visit Netai on January 19

  After the recent spate of violence in Lalgarh, West Bengal governor M K Narayanan has decided to visit Netai village in the trouble-torn area on January 19.The visit comes after seven people were shot dead by alleged CPM workers in Netai whereas another succumbed in the hospital today.The Governor may also visit Jhalda in Purulia district where sev...

• Court decision on Lalgarh killings today

  The Calcutta High Court will today decide on a petition asking for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the killings in Netai village in Lalgarh. A court order on it is likely.The State Home Secretary has filed an affidavit saying no CBI inquiry is needed as the CID is already investigating the case. Earlier, the High Court had aske...

• Why oppose CBI probe in Lalgarh violence: Court to Bengal Govt

  The Kolkata High Court, hearing a PIL in the January 7 violence in West Bengal's Lalgarh, has asked the state government to file an affidavit by January 14 on whether or not there should be a CBI inquiry into these killings.The court wants the state Home Secretary to respond to the allegations made in a PIL.The Home Secretary has been asked to spec...

• Lalgarh killings: Court asks Bengal govt to produce case diary

  The Calcutta High Court has admitted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which the Centre supported, seeking a CBI investigation into the firing at Lalgarh in West Midnaporec district on January 7.Noting that the police had reached several hours late and an FIR was lodged about 11 hours after the firing in which seven villagers were shot dead and s...

• Killings in Bengal 'unacceptable', says Pranab Mukherjee

  In the backdrop of increasing violence in Left Front ruled West Bengal, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the killings and political clashes taking place in the state every day were "totally unacceptable"."It is very unfortunate and totally unacceptable that every day there are killings and political clashes," Mukherjee told report...

• Can come to Delhi in only third week of Jan: Buddhadeb to Chidambaram

  West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has responded to Home Minister P Chidambaram's request to come to Delhi to discuss the killings in Lalgarh.Buddhadeb has told Chidambaram that he can go to Delhi only in the third week of January, that is, not before January 24. On Friday, the day of the Netai massacre in which seven people were ki...

• Lalgarh killings: Plea for CBI probe

  The Kolkata Bar Association has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Calcutta High Court demanding a CBI inquiry into the Lalgarh killings.  The PIL also demands Rs 25 lakh compensation to families of those killed and Rs 10 lakh to those who suffered bullet injuries.  The chief justice has granted leave to file the PIL and dire...

• Lalgarh violence should not have happened: Buddhadeb

  West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today strongly disapproved of the firing in Lalgarh, allegedly by CPI (M) cadres, saying it should not have happened and asked all political parties to exercise restraint."What happened in West Midnapore yesterday was not good. If should not have happened. Killings and bloodshed must stop otherwise...