Kolkata Murder

In a breakthrough in the double murder case that has rocked Kolkata since Sunday, the police Wednesday arrested a 42-year-old woman after she confessed to conspiracy in crime. Her son, who is believed to be a key suspect, is absconding.

The murder of Subir Chaki, the managing director of prominent engineering firm Kilburn Engineering, and his driver was suspected to be planned and the killers brought knives with them, a senior Kolkata Police officer said.

A senior corporate executive was found murdered in Kolkata on Sunday night inside an unoccupied residential building owned by him, police said today.

Kolkata Police on Sunday claimed to have solved the mystery behind the murder of a woman and her teenager son after arresting her two relatives who allegedly killed them to get her jewellery that will help them clear their debts, officers said.

A school teacher and her 14-year-old son were found murdered in Kolkata on Monday. Their bodies were discovered by her husband in their flat in a multi-storey building in Behala Parnashree area of the city.

Two judges of Calcutta High Court bench which ordered a CBI probe into alleged cases of rape and murder in West Bengal, termed as "uncalled for" an NHRC panel making recommendations and dismissed suggestions that some of its members were biased.

The Calcutta High Court today ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into "heinous crimes of murder and rape" after the results of the West Bengal election was announced.

The alleged vaccine fraudster in Kolkata who held at least three phony vaccination camps may now be charged with attempt to murder. Kolkata Police will appeal to court today to add Section 307 to the list of charges.

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed Chhatradhar Mahato, the former leader of Maoist-backed People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), to appear at the probe agency NIA's office in Kolkata thrice a week for alleged involvement in a murder case.

The body of a nine-year-old girl was recovered on Thursday from the staircase of a residential building in Kolkata, sparking protests by locals, who claimed that the "police did not take action when the family had reported that she was missing".

Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that in West Bengal false cases are being registered against BJP workers.

The West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested two sharpshooters from Ludhiana in Punjab for their alleged involvement in the murder of BJP leader Manish Shukla, a senior official said on Friday.

Bimal Gurung -- the leader of the statehood movement for Gorkhas in Bengal's Darjeeling hills and wanted by the state police for the last three years for violence and the murder of a policeman -- surfaced in Kolkata and announced a 360-degree change in political loyalty -- from the BJP to the Trinamool Congress.

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.

In an unprecedented development, the state BJP leadership on Monday decided to take the body of killed party leader Manish Shukla to Raj Bhavan in protest against what it called "the murder of democracy".

In a breakthrough in the double murder case that has rocked Kolkata since Sunday, the police Wednesday arrested a 42-year-old woman after she confessed to conspiracy in crime. Her son, who is believed to be a key suspect, is absconding.

The murder of Subir Chaki, the managing director of prominent engineering firm Kilburn Engineering, and his driver was suspected to be planned and the killers brought knives with them, a senior Kolkata Police officer said.

A senior corporate executive was found murdered in Kolkata on Sunday night inside an unoccupied residential building owned by him, police said today.

Kolkata Police on Sunday claimed to have solved the mystery behind the murder of a woman and her teenager son after arresting her two relatives who allegedly killed them to get her jewellery that will help them clear their debts, officers said.

A school teacher and her 14-year-old son were found murdered in Kolkata on Monday. Their bodies were discovered by her husband in their flat in a multi-storey building in Behala Parnashree area of the city.

Two judges of Calcutta High Court bench which ordered a CBI probe into alleged cases of rape and murder in West Bengal, termed as "uncalled for" an NHRC panel making recommendations and dismissed suggestions that some of its members were biased.

The Calcutta High Court today ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into "heinous crimes of murder and rape" after the results of the West Bengal election was announced.

The alleged vaccine fraudster in Kolkata who held at least three phony vaccination camps may now be charged with attempt to murder. Kolkata Police will appeal to court today to add Section 307 to the list of charges.

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed Chhatradhar Mahato, the former leader of Maoist-backed People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), to appear at the probe agency NIA's office in Kolkata thrice a week for alleged involvement in a murder case.

The body of a nine-year-old girl was recovered on Thursday from the staircase of a residential building in Kolkata, sparking protests by locals, who claimed that the "police did not take action when the family had reported that she was missing".

Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that in West Bengal false cases are being registered against BJP workers.

The West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested two sharpshooters from Ludhiana in Punjab for their alleged involvement in the murder of BJP leader Manish Shukla, a senior official said on Friday.

Bimal Gurung -- the leader of the statehood movement for Gorkhas in Bengal's Darjeeling hills and wanted by the state police for the last three years for violence and the murder of a policeman -- surfaced in Kolkata and announced a 360-degree change in political loyalty -- from the BJP to the Trinamool Congress.

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.

In an unprecedented development, the state BJP leadership on Monday decided to take the body of killed party leader Manish Shukla to Raj Bhavan in protest against what it called "the murder of democracy".