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kolkata wife of deceased jhalda municipality councillor tapan kandu on friday moved calcutta high court seeking a cbi probe into her husband’s death the congress councillor was shot at by unidentified people and he died of his injuries a day laterpurnima kandu moved the high court nine days after her husband’s death alleging that there was no progress in police investigations because there was no progress in police investigations...

A division bench has fixed the hearing of councillor Shila Chatterjee’s petition challenging the single bench order directing DM Purulia to oversee the work of the jhalda Municipality on December 20. The bench also directed Chatterjee not to resign till December 21.

Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed jhalda Police to submit the case diary in municipality councillor Tapan Kandu’s murder case and file a brief report on the progress of investigation during the next hearing on April 1, reports Subrata Chattoraj.

The CBI, which has secured custody of mobile phones belonging to deceased Congress councillor Tapan Kandu and his relative Mithun Kandu from SIT, questioned jhalda SDPO Subrata Deb and five ‘closed’ cops on Saturday in connection with the murder case, reports Rohit Khanna.

Tapan Kandu was shot dead by assailants on March 13 while he was on an evening walk at jhalda near his residence

Calcutta High Court stayed jhalda municipality’s board meeting scheduled on Monday to consider a no-confidence motion against chairman Suresh Kumar Agarwal, reports Subrata Chattoraj.

Calcutta High Court on Monday stayed the state urban development and municipal affairs department’s December 2 notification nominating TMC councillor Jaba Machhowar as chairperson of jhalda municipality in Purulia.

Calcutta High Court on Monday handed over investigation into the jhalda Congress councillor murder case to the CBI. Justice Rajasekhar Mantha directed the central investigating agency to file a primary probe report within 45 days.

It was prolonged enmity between two brothers, Tapan Kandu and Naren Kandu, that led to the murder of the jhalda municipality Congress councillor, CBI said in its charge sheet.

Three women were run-over and killed near the jhalda station in Purulia in the Ranchi division of South Eastern Railway early on Monday.

The Bengal government on Wednesday moved a division bench of Calcutta High Court, challenging the order of a single bench that handed over the jhalda Congress councillor murder case to the CBI. The HC will hear the matter next week.

Calcutta High Court on Tuesday handed over to the CBI the probe into the unnatural death of an eyewitness to Congress jhalda councillor Tapan Kandu’s murder.

The Kolkata High Court on Friday directed slain Congress leader Tapan Kandu's widow and Congress councillor Purnima Kandu to act as chairperson of jhalda Municipality until further orders. Justice Amrita Sinha passed the order while staying Thursday's state notification nominating Trinamool councillor Sudip Karmakar as the civic body chief. This happened after the jhalda SDO disqualified Shila Chatterjee as councillor and removed her from the chairperson's post invoking the antidefection section 21 b of the West Bengal Municipal Act 1993. Justice Sinha also directed not to give effect to the SDO order on January 18, Chatterjee was elected chairperson in a meeting of the municipality board in presence of the SDO. The state government was nominating councillors from the "losing side" after Chatterjee's removal for alleged defection. Justice Sinha's observation came after the state chose Karmakar a councillor from the "losing side" after Chatterjee's removal for alleged defection.

A 48-year-old Panihati councillor was shot in the head when he stepped out to buy medicines for his pet dog in Agarpara on Sunday evening. Anupam Dutta, a two-time Trinamool Congress councillor, died before he could be taken to hospital. This came close on the heels of a 52-year-old four-time jhalda councillor being shot by unidentified miscreants while out for his evening walk. Congress's Tapan Kandu died before he could be taken to hospital.

In its chargesheet filed before Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purulia, the Central Bureau of Investigation has named Dipak Kandu, Kalebar Singh, Naren Kandu, Md Asik and Satyaban Pramanik as accused.