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Time of India
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Time of India
Kona E-way curbs on goods vehicles
Kolkata: Howrah City Police and Kolkata Police have announced plans for restriction and diversion of goods vehicles in connection with ongoing construction work for the six-lane elevated corridor on Kona Expressway, which may lead to a spike in number of goods vehicles on BT Road. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The curbs will be in place till work is completed two years from now. Howrah CP Praveen Tripathi indicated that once the work on the ground at both ends of flyover is over, cops will again approach NHAI for truck movement nod. For now, no Kolkata-bound goods vehicles will be allowed on Kona Expressway from Nibra between 6 am and 11 pm. No truck will be allowed entry and exit from the port between noon and 4 pm. The port is shifting a chunk of operations to railways, said KP commissioner Manoj Verma. Port chairman Rathendra Raman said in case a road is closed, Kolkata-Haldia rail link, or the freight corridor at Dankuni may be used for cargo movement.
Time of India
17-07-2025
- Time of India
Cops bust 30cr investment racket
Howrah: Howrah City Police's cybercrime police station has busted an interstate investment racket and arrested the kingpin, Surajit Kumar (35), from New Delhi. Police said the accused had defrauded people across the country of over Rs 30 crore. DCDD Bishop Sarkar said a retired railway official, living in Shibpur, received a WhatsApp call in May and was offered various enticing investment schemes. Falling for the trap, he invested Rs 39.2 lakh in three instalments into an account of a company, named Web Tech Investment Solution, supposedly headquartered in New Delhi. Subsequently, he stopped receiving any response from the WhatsApp number, and the account, where the money was transferred, became untraceable. He then lodged a complaint with the cybercrime PS. You Can Also Check: Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in Kolkata A team, led by OC cybercrime Prosenjit Capri, launched a probe and arrested Kumar from Uttam Nagar in Delhi on Wednesday. Kumar told police around Rs 16 lakh, earned through the fraud, had been deposited in his account in a Delhi branch of a private bank. While a portion of the amount has already been diverted, police have frozen the rest and recovered Rs 3 lakh. Kumar has been sent to police custody.
The Print
11-06-2025
- The Print
Bengal: Howrah sex racket prime accused held, kingpin still absconding
Ariyan was arrested after being on the run for five days, the officer said, adding that his mother and the key accused in the case, Shweta Khan alias Fultusi, still remains absconding. Besides Ariyan, one of his accomplices, a minor, has also been apprehended from Narendrapur in South 24 Parganas, the police said. Kolkata, Jun 11 (PTI) The West Bengal Police on Wednesday arrested Ariyan Khan, one of the prime accused in the Howrah shady film racket, from a hideout in the Golf Green area of south Kolkata, a senior officer said. 'We have held Ariyan from a residence in Golf Green. He is currently being questioned. We will share the details of our investigation with you in some time,' Howrah Police Commissioner Praveen Tripathi told reporters. A team of Howrah City Police personnel picked up Ariyan at around 11 am from an intersection on Prince Ghulam Mohammad Shah Road under Golf Green PS when he was trying to move to a residence of his acquaintance, sources said. Another team had raided a house on Deshapran Sashmal Road in the neighbourhood late Tuesday evening after receiving a tip-off that Shweta could be hiding there, but failed to catch the suspect. Earlier, Howrah City Police had detained Shweta's mother for questioning. Shweta's youngest child, her three-year-old daughter, has also been rescued by the police from the residence of an unidentified person in Kolkata. Shocking events came to light last week after a 22-year-old woman from the Panihati area in North 24 Parganas managed to escape the clutches of the mother-son duo who had allegedly confined her in their Bankra-Fakirpara flat in Domjur, Howrah for the previous five months and mercilessly tortured her for not agreeing to work as a bar dancer. She allegedly was lured by Ariyan to his Domjur property, Ishara Productions, under the pretext of offering a job at his event management company, which the police have now confirmed to be a fake entity and a front for the racket run by the mother-son duo. The victim is currently undergoing treatment at the Critical Care Unit at the state-run Sagar Dutta Hospital with serious and multiple injuries on her head, limbs and internal organs. The woman alleged that she was regularly assaulted by Shweta, who broke the victim's hands, feet and teeth and was beaten up with iron rods and left starving after she refused to accede to her demands. The police confirmed that the minor, who was picked up alongside Ariyan, was also directly involved in the torture. Ariyan, police said, was slapped with relevant non-bailable sections under the BNS for attempt to murder, causing grievous hurt and outrage of modesty, among others. The details of the case popped up in public domain, subsequent to the victim alerting the police about bar dancer Shweta's modus operandi of luring girls through her son's fake event management firm and then forcing them to work as dancers in shady bars. Locals alleged that the family ran a unit of making pornography films from the Domjur property. Taking suo-motu cognizance of the case, the National Commission for Women has written to the West Bengal DGP seeking an action-taken report within the next 48 hours. 'The commission strongly condemns this barbaric act and Hon'ble Chairperson NCW has written to the DGP of West Bengal seeking immediate arrest of the accused under relevant provisions of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and has also directed that the victim be provided with free medical care and psychological counselling. A detailed action taken report must be submitted to the commission within 3 days,' the NCW wrote on X on Tuesday evening. The victim's mother has also reportedly written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, demanding immediate arrest of the accused, seeking justice for her daughter after reports that her physical condition deteriorated since Tuesday evening. 'I have written to the chief minister seeking justice for my daughter, whose condition remains critical. I have faith in her administration. I am happy that Ariyan has now been arrested. But his mother, who is the kingpin of the racket, must also be arrested without delay,' she told a Bengali news channel. PTI SMY BDC This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.
Time of India
09-06-2025
- Time of India
'Lured with job offer': 23-year-old woman assaulted for resisting bar dance, porn role; Kolkata police launches probe
NEW DELHI: Police in Kolkata have launched a search operation for a mother and son who allegedly detained and assaulted a 23-year-old woman at their residence in Domjur, Howrah district, for refusing to act in a pornographic film. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The victim, from Sodepur in North 24 Parganas district, is currently receiving treatment at the College of Medicine & Sagore Dutta Hospital. The accused pair, who ran an event management agency as a front, are currently absconding. Police are investigating whether they were operating a pornography film racket. Police sources revealed that the duo also operated a film production house where soft pornographic content was produced. They would target young women seeking employment by offering attractive salaries. "Initial probe has revealed that they used to lure young girls looking for employment under the pretext of a good salary and then force them to take part in films with pornographic content," stated a police officer. The accused woman was also allegedly operating a sex racket in the area, which is under investigation. The victim described the mother as the primary tormentor during her captivity. "I want the police to arrest the woman. She used to torture me the most. She used to beat me while this guy, her son, used to watch that from a distance," the victim stated. The woman had initially connected with the accused son through Facebook last year. He had promised her employment at his residence. According to the police complaint filed by the victim's parents at Khardah police station, when she visited their Domjur residence to discuss the job opportunity, both mother and son allegedly assaulted her after failing to convince her to become a bar dancer. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now They then forced her to perform domestic work. "The accused woman and her son are absconding and a search for them has been launched. We are trying to probe whether they were running any pornography film racket in the veil of running an event management agency," said an officer of Howrah City Police. The victim also reported that the accused had confiscated her mobile phone during her detention.
NDTV
09-06-2025
- NDTV
Bengal Woman Confined, Tortured By Man, His Mother For Refusing To Do Porn
Kolkata: Howrah Police have launched a search for a man and his mother who allegedly detained and assaulted a woman in their residence in Domjur in Howrah district for refusing to act in a pornographic film, an officer said on Sunday. The 23-year-old woman, a resident of Sodepur in North 24 Parganas district, is undergoing treatment at the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, the officer of Barrackpore Police Commissionerate said. "The accused woman and her son are absconding and a search for them has been launched. We are trying to probe whether they were running any pornography film racket in the veil of running an event management agency," an officer of Howrah City Police said. Sources in the police said that the accused woman, along with her son, was also running a film production house where "soft pornographic reels" were shot. "Initial probe has revealed that they used to lure young girls looking for employment under the pretext of a good salary and then force them to take part in films with pornographic content," the officer said. The accused woman was also allegedly running a sex racket in the area, he said, adding that it was also being probed. The victim alleged that, more than the son, his mother used to torture her during her "captivity" at their Domjur residence. "I want the police to arrest the woman. She used to torture me the most. She used to beat me while this guy, her son, used to watch that from a distance," she said. The victim had come in contact with the man from Howrah's Domjur on Facebook last year. He had promised her a job if she came to his residence, a police officer said. When she visited his Domjur residence to discuss the job, the youth, along with his mother, allegedly assaulted her after failing to lure her into the profession of a bar dancer and forced her to do domestic chores, the woman's parents said in the police complaint lodged at Khardah police station. The victim has also claimed that her mobile phone was taken away by the two accused.
