Kolkata Crime News

Police arrested four persons for alleged sexual assault of a woman at a party in a resort in Rajarhat on the eastern outskirts of the city, a police official said on Saturday.

Four people including two policemen and a civic volunteer were on Thursday arrested from Kolkata's Ekbalpore area for their alleged involvement in a case of looting two youths of over Rs 30 lakh.

Bodies of two 17-year-old boys were found in a morgue on Tuesday, nearly a fortnight after they went missing from the city's Baguihati area, a senior police officer said.

An MBBS graduate was allegedly cheated of Rs 52 lakh here on the pretext of admission in a medical college in Kolkata to pursue a master's degree, police said.

A businessman was allegedly kidnapped from outside a shopping mall in south Kolkata's Kasba area, but was rescued within hours, a senior police officer said on Thursday.

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 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.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly conning US-based customers through a call centre in the city's Topsia area by impersonating as officials of tech giant Microsoft, police said on Friday.

A city court Thursday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a two-and-a-half- year-old girl in the city in 2013.

A Crime Investigation Department (CID) team busted a sex racket at a guest house in Kolkata, arresting six persons including one woman and a male trafficker, an official said on Friday.

A woman today died after falling from the fifth floor of a highrise in south Kolkata, police said.

It was about two years ago when Rita Sarkar began to feel a sharp ache in her abdomen. Sarkar, of West Bengal, told her husband about the pain, and he took her to a medical facility in Kolkata for treatment.

A pregnant woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her in-law's house in Kolkata's Maniktala area, police said on Friday.

A semi-decomposed body of a small-time local actress of the Bengali entertainment industry was today recovered from her flat in the southern part of the city's Kasba area, police said.

The driver of an app-based cab aggregator was arrested in Kolkata on Saturday over allegations of sexually assaulting a woman, police said.

Police arrested four persons for alleged sexual assault of a woman at a party in a resort in Rajarhat on the eastern outskirts of the city, a police official said on Saturday.

Four people including two policemen and a civic volunteer were on Thursday arrested from Kolkata's Ekbalpore area for their alleged involvement in a case of looting two youths of over Rs 30 lakh.

Bodies of two 17-year-old boys were found in a morgue on Tuesday, nearly a fortnight after they went missing from the city's Baguihati area, a senior police officer said.

An MBBS graduate was allegedly cheated of Rs 52 lakh here on the pretext of admission in a medical college in Kolkata to pursue a master's degree, police said.

A businessman was allegedly kidnapped from outside a shopping mall in south Kolkata's Kasba area, but was rescued within hours, a senior police officer said on Thursday.

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 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.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly conning US-based customers through a call centre in the city's Topsia area by impersonating as officials of tech giant Microsoft, police said on Friday.

A city court Thursday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a two-and-a-half- year-old girl in the city in 2013.

A Crime Investigation Department (CID) team busted a sex racket at a guest house in Kolkata, arresting six persons including one woman and a male trafficker, an official said on Friday.

A woman today died after falling from the fifth floor of a highrise in south Kolkata, police said.

It was about two years ago when Rita Sarkar began to feel a sharp ache in her abdomen. Sarkar, of West Bengal, told her husband about the pain, and he took her to a medical facility in Kolkata for treatment.

A pregnant woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her in-law's house in Kolkata's Maniktala area, police said on Friday.

A semi-decomposed body of a small-time local actress of the Bengali entertainment industry was today recovered from her flat in the southern part of the city's Kasba area, police said.

The driver of an app-based cab aggregator was arrested in Kolkata on Saturday over allegations of sexually assaulting a woman, police said.