Kolkata Crime

In a rerun of the 2015 Robinson Street skeleton case in Kolkata, a woman and her daughter were found living with the decomposed corpse of her 78-year-old husband in the northern part of the city, police said on Wednesday.

A man, who went out for morning walk, was stabbed in south Kolkata's Kidderpore area on Wednesday as his belongings were snatched by two bike-borne men, police said.

A 26-year-old woman was gang-raped in her apartment in Kolkata's Garden Reach area, following which the flat was robbed of Rs 15 lakh in cash, police said on Wednesday.

The body of a nine-year-old girl was recovered on Thursday morning from the terrace of a residential building in the city's Jorabagan area, sparking protests by locals, who claimed that the police did not take action when the family had reported that she was missing.

Arjun Singh, BJP MP from Bengal's Barrackpore, on Saturday alleged that the West Bengal Crime Investigation Department (CID) is "plotting" to frame him in Manish Shukla's murder case.

The man who allegedly murdered his wife in Bengaluru before flying to Kolkata, where he shot his mother-in-law dead and then killed himself, may have committed the first crime 48 hours earlier than previously believed, Kolkata Police have said

Let Lalbazaar take you through the winding lanes of Kolkata into the pain and joy of the human heart.

Incidents of attackers wearing face masks, attempting to break open bank ATMs, have posed a new challenge for the city police trying to find a way out to keep a check on such crimes, a senior Kolkata Police officer said.

The director of a retail ethnic wear chain and the scion of a family that runs a chain hotels - both of them Kolkata based - have been arrested by the crime branch of the police for allegedly blackmailing 187 women using sexually explicit pictures and videos.

Six people have been arrested in Kolkata for allegedly duping several people on the pretext of providing them with fake jobs in the railways, the police said on Tuesday.

Abhishek Bachchan stars as Bob Biswas - a cold-blooded contract killer, a character that was introduced in Sujoy Ghosh's crime thriller Kahaani

As many as 3,678 people were arrested from different parts of the city on New Year's Eve for their alleged involvement in various crimes - ranging from disorderly conduct, to drink driving, and violation of traffic norms -- a senior police officer said.

A 35-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by stone in Kolkata, his body cut open with shaving razor and then thrown into the Hooghly river over a financial tiff, police said on Friday.

A 19-year-old boy allegedly murdered his father by attacking him with a screw driver in Kolkata, as the father could not meet his frequent monetary demands, the police said on Saturday.

A taxi driver has been arrested in Kolkata's southern outskirts over alleged abduction and rape of a shelter home inmate, a senior police officer said on Sunday.

In a rerun of the 2015 Robinson Street skeleton case in Kolkata, a woman and her daughter were found living with the decomposed corpse of her 78-year-old husband in the northern part of the city, police said on Wednesday.

A man, who went out for morning walk, was stabbed in south Kolkata's Kidderpore area on Wednesday as his belongings were snatched by two bike-borne men, police said.

A 26-year-old woman was gang-raped in her apartment in Kolkata's Garden Reach area, following which the flat was robbed of Rs 15 lakh in cash, police said on Wednesday.

The body of a nine-year-old girl was recovered on Thursday morning from the terrace of a residential building in the city's Jorabagan area, sparking protests by locals, who claimed that the police did not take action when the family had reported that she was missing.

Arjun Singh, BJP MP from Bengal's Barrackpore, on Saturday alleged that the West Bengal Crime Investigation Department (CID) is "plotting" to frame him in Manish Shukla's murder case.

The man who allegedly murdered his wife in Bengaluru before flying to Kolkata, where he shot his mother-in-law dead and then killed himself, may have committed the first crime 48 hours earlier than previously believed, Kolkata Police have said

Let Lalbazaar take you through the winding lanes of Kolkata into the pain and joy of the human heart.

Incidents of attackers wearing face masks, attempting to break open bank ATMs, have posed a new challenge for the city police trying to find a way out to keep a check on such crimes, a senior Kolkata Police officer said.

The director of a retail ethnic wear chain and the scion of a family that runs a chain hotels - both of them Kolkata based - have been arrested by the crime branch of the police for allegedly blackmailing 187 women using sexually explicit pictures and videos.

Six people have been arrested in Kolkata for allegedly duping several people on the pretext of providing them with fake jobs in the railways, the police said on Tuesday.

Abhishek Bachchan stars as Bob Biswas - a cold-blooded contract killer, a character that was introduced in Sujoy Ghosh's crime thriller Kahaani

As many as 3,678 people were arrested from different parts of the city on New Year's Eve for their alleged involvement in various crimes - ranging from disorderly conduct, to drink driving, and violation of traffic norms -- a senior police officer said.

A 35-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by stone in Kolkata, his body cut open with shaving razor and then thrown into the Hooghly river over a financial tiff, police said on Friday.

A 19-year-old boy allegedly murdered his father by attacking him with a screw driver in Kolkata, as the father could not meet his frequent monetary demands, the police said on Saturday.

A taxi driver has been arrested in Kolkata's southern outskirts over alleged abduction and rape of a shelter home inmate, a senior police officer said on Sunday.