Lalgarh

• 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...

• Lalgarh violence: Chidambaram summons Buddhadeb to Delhi

  Home Minister P Chidambaram has called West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya to Delhi a day after at least eight people were shot dead and 17 others injured in Lalgarh on Friday.The Trinamool Congress blamed armed CPM squads, but the state Home Secretary called it a political clash. (Read: 8 killed in Lalgarh violence)The Home Minister ...

• 8 killed in Lalgarh, blame game begins

  At least 8 people were shot dead in Netai village in Lalgarh and another 15 injured in what's being seen as the latest political clash between the CPM and the Trinamool. The Trinamool called it a genocide and blamed armed CPM squads but the state Home Secretary called it a political clash .News of the Lalgarh deaths completely dominated a processio...

• West Bengal Governor hurt by Lalgarh violence

  The West Bengal Governor, M K Narayanan, condemned the Lalgarh violence which resulted in the death of eight and said it is a day of sorrow and shame for the state. Earlier the Home Minister P Chidambaram yet again wrote to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee asking him to "reschedule all appointments and visit Delhi immediately".Here is the statement issued b...

• Chidambaram writes to Buddadeb over Lalgarh violence

  In the wake of fresh political violence in West Bengal, Home Minister P Chidambaram today dispatched yet another letter to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee asking him to "reschedule all appointments and visit Delhi immediately".Describing today's violence in Lalgarh as a "grave incident", Chidambaram said he has received information that eigh...

• Lalgarh: 3 feared killed as Maoists-police exchange fire

  Three people are feared killed and several others injured in exchange of fire between the Maoists and the police in West Bengal's Lalgarh district. A woman is also among those killed.At least eight injured have been rushed to hospitals in Midnapore and Lalgarh.More details are awaited.