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KOLKATA: Priyanka Singh, alias Sweety, has been arrested in connection with the drugs case in which Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Yuva Morcha leader Pamela Goswami was arrested in Kolkata earlier in February, the Kolkata Police informed on Tuesday. One Priyanka Singh (alias Sweety) was arrested yesterday in connection with New Alipore PS drug case (Pamela matter). She was engaged by Rakesh Singh to procure Cocaine from drug peddlers. She purchased cocaine Rs 9,500 per gram and handed it over to Rakesh Singh. She will be produced in court today, a statement from the police said.
This is the fifth arrest in the case.
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KOLKATA: Five days after the Special Task Force (STF) of the Kolkata Police arrested a East Burdwan resident and seized over 5 kg heroin worth Rs 25.1 crore in the international market, it has seized cash worth Rs 61 lakh that was used to procure drugs through hawala channels.
“We have questioned the accused Sunul Howlader and he led us to the office of a trader at Jorasanko from where we seized the huge amount of unaccounted cash. Howlader has accepted that this money was deposited by him in the recent past at Khan’s office as payment of the narcotic drug that he peddled,” said DC (STF) Aparajita Rai. The cops are ascertaining if the unaccounted cash was to be used for electoral purposes.
The fire was reported at 6.10 pm, said a fire official. (ANI Photo)
KOLKATA: At least seven people were killed in an inferno in a multi-storeyed building in Kolkata, which houses zonal offices of Eastern Railway and South Eastern Railway on Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.
Two more persons were also feared dead, said Banerjee who has gone to the spot.
Out of the seven deceased, four were firefighters, one assistant sub-inspector posted at the Hare Street police station and one RPF personnel, Fire and Emergency Services Minister Sujit Basu said.
The seventh person is a senior official of the Railways.
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KOLKATA: The All India Congress Committee announced a total of 13 candidates for the 60 assembly seats going to polls in the first two phases. The list is packed with new faces, other than sitting Baghmundi MLA Nepal Mahato. Congress has fielded Partha Pratim Banerjee for the Purulia seat after outgoing MLA Sudip Mukherjee left Congress and joined BJP.
Pradesh Congress leaders will have another round of talks with Left Front leaders on Sunday to sort out “teething problems” over seat-sharing in north Bengal. Congress is not in a mood to share seats with Abbas Siddiqui’s Indian Secular Front (ISF) in Malda and Murshidabad.