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The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted the West Bengal government permission to file an appeal against the Sealdah Court’s order, which sentenced the sole convict in the RG Kar Hospital doctor’s rape and murder case to life imprisonment until death. Advocate General Kishor Datta, representing the Bengal government, moved a division bench presided by […]
The Sealdah Sessions court in Kolkata, West Bengal, released its 172-page judgement convicting and sentencing Sanjoy Roy in the RG Kar doctor rape and murder case. In its verdict, the court reprimanded the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital authorities for covering the murder as a “suicide”. It also mentioned how the “police personnel of […]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday spared a controversy by alleging that the central forces of letting Bangladeshi terrorists cross over into Bengal to destabilise the state, reported India Today. She also alleged that the BSF, which guards the Bangladesh border, was allowing infiltration into Bengal and also torturing women. She said, as […]
Hundreds of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are being arbitrarily and indefinitely detained across India and face dehumanising living conditions that violate their basic human rights, according to a new report. The study, published on Monday by the non-profit Refugees International and The Azadi Project, documents the segregation of family members and poor sanitation measures at […]
The parents of Bidyut Kumar Biswas, a 49-year-old teacher at a government primary school in Nadia district of West Bengal, arrived in India just after the Bangladesh War in 1971. Biswas said they fled their ancestral village in Jessore district in Bangladesh, as Hindus increasingly faced religious persecution. “My father secretly sold his properties and […]